AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate

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. 

Read our blog to learn more.

About the role...

  You will...

• Solve our most ambitious problems with the right tool for the task


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


• Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate their return on investment, and then implement the best solution at scale to improve the lives of our millions of learners each day


• Share your findings both within Duolingo as well as to the broader research community

✅  You have...

• You have an Ph.D. in computer science or related technical field (or expect to by August 2027)


• A portfolio of impactful work, in the form of (for example) publications, open-source projects, or AI internships


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


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


• Strong debugging and critical thinking skills

❤️  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!