Head of AI and Machine Learning

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

As Head of AI and Machine Learning at Duolingo, you will have the opportunity to grow as a researcher and to steer the company’s overall artificial intelligence efforts, creating a more formal path for ML experimentation, development, and product realization. By collaborating with other leaders in engineering, product, learning, and design, you will align product needs with new areas of research and innovation that support ML efforts across the company, both in the near-term and long-term.

You Will...

• Develop the vision and corresponding strategy for AI and ML at Duolingo.
• Build a shared team of ML researchers and engineers through effective hiring, coaching, mentoring, and hands-on career development, with a focus on cultivating talent and instilling data-driven values in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, learning, assessment, and business leaders to ensure that work is aligned with Duolingo’s mission and goals.
• Set and own the strategy and implementation for multiple areas of focus, including NLP, speech technology, personalization, dialog systems, anomaly detection, forecasting, and so on; balancing short- and long-term priorities against various business needs.

You Have...

• PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in computer science or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience as a research or engineering leader.
• Experience with technical innovation in cross-functional, engineering-oriented environments.
• Experience growing and developing organizations and teams.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills

Exceptional Candidates Will Have...

• Experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app based.
• Experience with ideation and innovation of technology at scale, successfully producing intelligent software products and features within strict timelines.
• A desire to keep up with the field by attending or publishing at relevant conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, AAAI, ICLR, CVPR, etc.)