Data Scientist I, New Graduate

Posted Yesterday
New York, NY
Hybrid
125K-135K Annually
1-3 Years Experience
Edtech • Machine Learning • Mobile • Other • Software
We’re here to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.
The Role
Derive insights from data, apply advanced analytical methods, evaluate product experiments, build dashboards and reports, ensure data quality, and collaborate with product and engineering teams at Duolingo as a Data Scientist I, New Graduate.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful. 

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

What you’ll do...

  • 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!)

What we’re looking for…

  • Strong understanding of consumer digital products and an interest in applying advanced analytics to business outcomes
  • 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 2024 or Spring/Summer 2025. We will also consider candidates with 1-2 years since degree completion. 
  • 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...

  • 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
  • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
  • Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!

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 your recruiter.

Because Duolingo requires all employees to return to work from an office, all employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remain employed unless they have an exemption to vaccination pursuant to a required reasonable accommodation. This is so that our employees feel safe in the office.

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

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.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range:

$125,000$135,000 USD

Top Skills

Python
R
SQL
The Company
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA
670 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Some of our products include:

1. Duolingo: The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language!
2. DET (Duolingo English Test): A modern language proficiency tool designed for today's international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience.
3. Duolingo Math: An app that can make math be fun. For everyone. Students can focus on elementary math, which covers classroom topics, or adults can focus on brain training, which strengthens mental math skills and covers more advanced topics.
4. Duolingo ABC: An educational learning app that offers immersive lessons to teach preschool to second grade kids reading fundamentals.

Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.

Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.

Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated.

With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all.

Duolingo has been named:
2022 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators
2022 Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company
2021 Forbes Best Startup Employers
2020, 2018, 2017, 2013 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company
2020 Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor
2018 Inc. Best Places to Work
2018 Entrepreneur Top Company Culture List

University Program Awards:
2022 Handshake Early Talent Award
2022 Untapped Top Internship Programs
2022 OneReq Internship Program Trailblazer Award

Why Work With Us

Our global team works together to make language learning fun, free, and effective for anyone who wants to learn, wherever they are. Best of all, you get to work alongside Duo (literally)!

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