Data Scientist, New Graduate

Duolingo • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States • $135k - $200k / year • 1m ago

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 methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new features. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop and implement solutions.
Evaluate product experiments to create and improve user experiences
Build dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts to help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale
Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection is high (and improving!)

You have...

Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in a quantitative field (e.g. statistics, economics, computer science, math, linguistics, computational social science), with expected graduation by Fall 2025 or Spring/Summer 2026. We will also consider candidates with 1-2 years since degree completion.
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

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

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!

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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