Psychometrician

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, R Programming

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!

Duolingo is looking for a world-class authority in psychometrics, with the desire and ability to support psychometric foundational and operational research, and operational excellence for the Duolingo English Test. You will join Duolingo’s growing research team and contribute to agile, ongoing development of the test, supporting our efforts to advance Duolingo’s mission through science.

You will:

• Work with dedicated assessment scientists, engineers, and designers to bring psychometric operational excellence principles to life for novel assessment instruments
• Help develop and apply computational psychometric methods for high-quality language assessments, such as adaptive assignment algorithms, psychometric models for complex tasks, and explanatory item response theory models
• Share research findings with a variety of stakeholders: through blogs, technical reports, conference presentations (AERA/NCME, IMPS, IACAT, ML conferences, etc.), and peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Educational Measurement, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Psychometrika, etc.)

Requirements:

• PhD and research publication record in psychometrics, educational measurement, or statistics
• Outstanding interpersonal communication and organizational skills
• Evidence of innovation in psychometric research/analysis
• Excellent skills in open-source data science tools, such as R and Python
• A desire to make the world a better place through technology
• Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA

Outstanding candidates will have:

• 3-5 years of post-PhD experience working in an education-related field
• Experience with the design, development, and analysis of computer-adaptive tests
• Experience with machine learning and natural language processing techniques
• An open mind as to how these techniques can be integrated with more traditional psychometrics.

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

The multi-level salary range for this role is $108,800 - $212,400 and 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.