# AI Research Intern (PhD)

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY, NY
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $67-$69
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

You will join a team that cares about educating users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems.

**Responsibilities**

- Apply AI methods to massive real-world datasets

- Prototype new models, evaluate with small-scale experiments, and productionize solutions at scale

- Work with a cross-functional team of world-class researchers, engineers, and others to build new product features and/or publish state-of-the-art findings

- Solve ambitious problems with the right tool for the task

- Collaborate cross-functionally to bring ideas to life in the product

- Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate their return on investment, and implement the best solution at scale to improve the lives of millions of learners

**Requirements**

- Pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, or a related field

- Expected graduation by August 2028

- Contributions to research communities and efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as ACL, CVPR, EDM, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.

- A portfolio of impactful work, in the form of publications, open-source projects, or AI internships

- Experience implementing AI systems in Python, Java, Scala, or C/C++

- A creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&D

- Strong debugging and critical thinking skills

- 12-week consecutive availability between May 24, 2027, and August 13, 2027, or June 14, 2027, and September 3, 2027

- Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY

**Benefits**

- Language learning opportunities

- Catered in-house lunches and breakfast and dinner options

- Company-wide Hackathon

- PTO and company holidays

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

**Salary**

- Hourly range: $67-$69 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- Scala
- C/C++
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- natural language processing

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