Data Scientist Intern
Duolingo
BigQueryCloudPythonSpringSQL
Data Scientist Intern, PhD or Masters
Duolingo
internship
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Location Type: Office
Location: Pittsburgh • New York, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $58 - $60 per hour
Job Level
Entry Level
Tech Stack
BigQueryCloudPythonSpringSQL
About the role
- Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results
- Apply advanced analytical methods, structural approaches, causal inference, and/or machine learning and AI 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
- Communicate and present findings and recommendations to senior management
- Help preserve our culture of fact-based decision-making as we scale
Requirements
- Pursuing a Masters or PhD degree (in at least the third year of PhD program) in a quantitative field (e.g. Economics, Finance, Statistics, Math, Linguistics, Computer Science, Computational Social Science, ML/AI), ideally planning to graduate in Spring/Summer 2027
- Strong understanding of consumer digital products and an interest in applying advanced analytics and economics to business outcomes
- Previous experience analyzing large datasets and communicating results to technical and non-technical senior-level audiences
- Skilled in SQL, R or Python, and/or statistical methods to analyze behavioral data
- 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 or NYC for the internship
- (Exceptional) Experience with "big data" and cloud computing technologies like BigQuery, Snowflake, and/or dbt
- (Exceptional) Experience articulating business questions and using available data to find answers that translate into product recommendations
- (Exceptional) Self-starter, with a desire both to learn new techniques and guide others
- (Exceptional) Previous experience/internships in applied business settings
- (Exceptional) Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, a knack for prompt engineering, and a desire to continue to innovate and learn in AI.
Benefits
- 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!
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SQLRPythonstatistical methodsmachine learningAIdata analysisbig datacausal inferencebehavioral data analysis
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationself-starterenthusiasm for learningability to present findingsfact-based decision-makingguiding othersarticulating business questionstranslating data into recommendationsinterest in analytics
