AI Research Intern (PhD)

About the Role

Join Duolingo's mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available to millions of learners. This role offers limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds, engaging in work that is both meaningful and fun.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply AI methods to massive real-world datasets.
• Prototype new models, evaluate with small-scale experiments, and/or productionize solutions at scale.
• Work with a cross-functional team of world-class researchers, engineers, and others to build new product features and/or publish state-of-the-art findings.
• Solve ambitious problems with the right tool for the task.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to bring ideas to life in the product.
• Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate their return on investment, and implement the best solution at scale.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, or related field.
• Graduation expected by August 2028.
• Contributions to research communities and efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as ACL, CVPR, EDM, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.
• A portfolio of impactful work, in the form of publications, open-source projects, or AI internships.
• Experience implementing AI systems in Python, Java, Scala, or C/C++.
• A creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&D.
• Strong debugging and critical thinking skills.
• 12 consecutive weeks of availability for one of the following periods:
• May 24, 2027 - August 13, 2027
• June 14, 2027 - September 3, 2027
• Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

What You Can Expect

• Language learning opportunities.
• Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options.
• Company-wide Hackathon.
• PTO and company holidays.
• Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs.

Hourly Range for this internship is: $67 — $69 USD