# Data Scientist Intern at Duolingo

- Company: [Duolingo](https://duolingo.com)
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA +1 more
- Type: Internship · Internship
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingounirecruitment/jobs/8893030002
- Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/data-scientist-intern-ff059d9c

## Summary by newgrad.ai

What you'll do:

- Analyze data to shape product roadmaps and business outcomes.
- Use machine learning and causal inference to model user behavior.
- Assess product experiments to enhance user experiences.
- Present analytical findings and recommendations to senior leadership.

What they're looking for:

- PhD students in quantitative fields graduating Fall 2027 or 2028.
- Proficiency in SQL, R, or Python for behavioral data analysis.
- Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh or New York City.
- Experience analyzing large datasets and communicating technical insights.

Pay and perks:

- Hourly pay between $63 and $65.
- Includes catered meals, language learning, and company-wide events.

## Posting

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It's a big mission, and that's where you come in!

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.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

### 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!

Connect with your recruiter on the benefits for interns at Duolingo!

Hourly Range for this internship is: $63—$65 USD

From Duolingo's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply.

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