Role details
- 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.
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About the role
- Duolingo is looking for a language assessment expert to support test development and research for the Duolingo English Test.
- You will join our Assessment Research and Development team, collaborating across disciplines to design and evaluate innovative language assessments.
- Your work will help ensure that assessment tasks and scores are valid, reliable, and fair while advancing Duolingo's mission through science.
🧠 You will...
- Collaborate with measurement researchers, engineers, and designers to develop innovative, research-driven language assessments.
- Design and evaluate assessment tasks, including new interactive item formats.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative studies examining the validity, reliability, and fairness of assessment tasks and test scores.
- Apply language assessment and measurement principles to improve test design, content, scoring, and quality assurance.
- Translate research findings into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.
- Share findings through technical reports, research publications, blog posts, and presentations to professional and academic audiences.
✅ You have...
- A PhD in language testing, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, educational measurement, or a related field.
- Experience developing or conducting research on high-stakes language assessments or comparable professional experience.
- Expertise in language assessment, including test design, validity, reliability, fairness, and the measurement of language proficiency.
- Experience designing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research studies.
- Experience communicating research through publications, reports, or presentations.
- The ability to explain complex measurement concepts clearly to collaborators from different disciplines.
- Proficiency with data-analysis tools such as R or Python.
- Strong collaboration, project-management, and organizational skills.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience applying large language models, natural language processing, or related technologies to language assessment.
- Experience collaborating with software engineers, or AI researchers to develop digital assessment products.
- Experience designing or developing computer-adaptive tests.
- Expertise in evidence-centered design, interactive-task development, or integrated-skills assessment.
- The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.
- The posted range is subject to change in the future.
- For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
- We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
Salary Range:
$110,500 — $149,500 USD
Benefits
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