AI Research Intern (PhD)
- Pay
- $67 – $69 per hour
- Location
- New York, NY
- Listed
- 3 days ago
About the role
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
You Will
- 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 our most ambitious problems with the right tool for the task
- Collaborate cross-functionally to bring your ideas to life in the product
- 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
You Have
- 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 (for example) publications, open-source projects, or AI internships
- Experience implementing AI systems in Python, Java, Scala, or C/C++ (i.e., not just R or MATLAB)
- A creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&D
- Strong debugging and critical thinking skills
- 12 week consecutive availability
- 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, and so much more!
- Connect with your recruiter on the benefits for interns at Duolingo!
- Hourly Range for this internship is: $67 - $69 USD
From Duolingo's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The AI Research Intern (PhD) posting at Duolingo states compensation of $67 – $69 per hour. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Duolingo's official career site.
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