# Data Scientist, Intern (PhD)

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $63-$65 USD
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8888848002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

At Duolingo, you'll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You'll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds , while doing work that's both meaningful and fun.

## About the role

You will...

- Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results

- Apply advanced analytical methods, structural approaches, causal inference, and/or machine learning and AI to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new feature implementations, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop solutions

- Evaluate product experiments to create and improve user experiences

- Communicate and present findings and recommendations to senior management

- Help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale

You have...

- Pursuing a PhD degree (in at least the third year of PhD program) in a quantitative field (e.g. Economics, Finance, Statistics, Math, Linguistics, Computer Science, Computational Social Science, ML/AI), ideally planning to graduate in Fall 2027 or Spring/Summer 2028

- Strong understanding of consumer digital products and an interest in applying advanced analytics and economics to business outcomes

- Previous experience analyzing large datasets, communicating results to technical and non-technical senior-level audiences, and making actionable recommendations that improve the product or business

- Skilled in SQL, R or Python, and/or statistical methods to analyze behavioral data

- Enthusiasm for learning and sharing analytical methods to help grow a collaborative Data Science team and data-forward company culture

- Able to relocate to Pittsburgh or NYC for the internship

Exceptional candidates will have...

- Experience with "big data" and cloud computing technologies like BigQuery, Snowflake, and/or dbt

- Experience articulating business questions and using available data to find answers that translate into product recommendations

- Self-starter, with a desire to both learn new techniques and guide others

- Previous experience/internships in applied business settings

- Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, a knack for prompt engineering, and a desire to continue to innovate and learn in AI

- A GPA of 3.5+

- A Duolingo streak

## Why you'll love working here…

- Language learning opportunities

- Catered in-house lunches and breakfast

- Company-wide Hackathon

- PTO and company holidays

- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- R
- Python
- statistical methods
- machine learning
- AI
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Cursor
- prompt engineering

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