AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate

<p>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!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.&nbsp;</p> <p>Read <a href=">our blog</a> to learn more.</p> <hr> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the role...</strong></p> <p><strong>🧠&nbsp; You will...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solve our most ambitious problems with the right tool for the task</li> <li>Collaborate cross-functionally to bring your ideas to life in the product</li> <li>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</li> <li>Share your findings both within Duolingo as well as to the broader research community</li> </ul> <p><strong>✅&nbsp; You have...</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have an Ph.D. in computer science or related technical field (or expect to by August 2027)</li> <li>A portfolio of impactful work, in the form of (for example) publications, open-source projects, or AI internships</li> <li>Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY</li> <li>A creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&amp;D</li> <li>Strong debugging and critical thinking skills</li> </ul> <p><strong>❤️ &nbsp;Why you'll love working here...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Language learning opportunities</li> <li>Catered in-house lunches and breakfast</li> <li>Company-wide Hackathon</li> <li>PTO and company holidays</li> <li>Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!</li> </ul>