Data Scientist, Intern

Duolingo
Pittsburgh +1 more
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at early-career candidates with quantitative training who are eager to collaborate across product and engineering teams.

Best fit for

  • Early-career candidates with a quantitative background and enthusiasm for collaborative problem-solving
    — “Pursuing an undergraduate or Masters degree in a quantitative field”
  • Individuals interested in applying AI and big data tools to influence product development
    — “Experience with 'big data' and cloud computing technologies like BigQuery, Snowflake, and/or dbt”
  • Candidates who can translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations
    — “Experience articulating business questions and using available data to find answers that translate into product recommendations”

Things to consider

  • Relocation to Pittsburgh or New York is mandatory, even though the role is unspecified in terms of work arrangement
    — “Able to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to communicate insights effectively through dashboards and reports
    — “Develop dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts”
  • Showcase your initiative in learning new analytical techniques and sharing them with others
    — “Enthusiasm for learning and sharing analytical methods to help grow a collaborative Data Science team”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps
  • Evaluate product experiments
  • Develop dashboards and reports
Typical background
Pursuing an undergraduate or Masters degree in a quantitative field

Skills & requirements

Required

SQLPythonRStatistical MethodsData ModelingUser Behavior AnalysisData VisualizationCommunication Skills

Preferred

BigQuerySnowflakedbtAI ToolsPrompt Engineering

Stack & domain

SQLPythonRStatistical MethodsAIBigQuerySnowflakedbtCursorPrompt EngineeringCommunicationLeadershipPresentationTeamworkCollaborationEducationTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Duolingo via Greenhouse

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...

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

Apply advanced analytical and AI methods 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

Develop dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts

Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection

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

  You have...

Pursuing an undergraduate or Masters degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, economics, computer science, math, linguistics, computational social science, ML/AI) with expected graduation in Spring/Summer 2027

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

Previous experience analyzing large datasets and communicating results

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

Excellent presentation and communication skills

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, PA or New York, NY

  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 both to learn new techniques and guide others

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

Why you’ll love working here…

Language learning opportunities

Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options

Company-wide Hackathon

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:$54—$56 USD

Source: Duolingo careers (Greenhouse)

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