Senior Psychometrician
Senior Psychometrician
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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about educating our users experimenting with big ideas making fact-based decisions and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Youll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds while doing work thats both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
You will...
- Collaborate with dedicated assessment scientists engineers and designers to apply psychometric operational excellence principles to innovative and novel assessment instruments
- Develop and apply computational psychometric methods for high-quality language assessments such as adaptive assignment algorithms explanatory item response theory (IRT) models and AI-enhanced scoring systems.
- Use AI tools to synthesize research prototype new test items assist with code development and enhance feature extraction pipelines.
- Communicate findings through blogs dashboards technical reports conference presentations and peer-reviewed journals potentially using AI to accelerate writing and visualization workflows.
You have...
- 35 years of post-PhD experience working in an education-related field.
- PhD in a quantitative field (such as educational measurement psychometrics statistics data science or artificial intelligence).
- A strong research publication record in psychometrics educational measurement
- Outstanding interpersonal communication and organizational skills for effective collaboration across AI and assessment domains.
- Evidence of innovation in psychometric research or analysis particularly in leveraging AI or computational methods.
- Excellent skills in open-source data science tools such as R and Python
- Desire to make the world a better place through technology
- Ability to relocate or work in the Pittsburgh PA office.
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience with the design development and analysis of computer-adaptive tests and data-driven assessments.
- A deep understanding of psychometric modeling techniques along with hands-on experience applying machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to educational data.
- Familiarity with how AI can support item development automated scoring and test integrity monitoring.
- Familiarity with AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face) is a plus.
- An open mind toward the creative integration of AI and traditional psychometric practices and a passion for improving global access to high-quality assessment.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This 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.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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