duolingo
Pittsburgh · On-site · Full-time
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 researc
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