Duolingo
Senior Director of Engineering, New Subjects
$296K–$444K
New York, NY +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- No number of years stated; requires experience leading consumer product engineering organizations of 100+ engineers and building or scaling LLM-powered product features.
About the job
Co-lead Duolingo’s Math, Music, and Chess engineering organization, shaping product strategy and building teams to scale new learning products.
What you'll do
- Set product and technical strategy across Math, Music, and Chess, including decisions about expansion and investment.
- Lead engineering directors and teams delivering AI-based content creation, neural bots, and Unity-based gameplay.
- Drive engineering operations, hiring, organizational design, and experimentation to improve reliability and product impact.
What they ask for
- Experience leading consumer product engineering organizations of 100+ engineers.
- Experience building or scaling LLM-powered product features.
- Experience leading high-velocity, experiment-driven product organizations through multiple leadership layers.
- Ability to work from the New York, NY office on a 4+1 hybrid schedule.
Pay
$296,000 — $444,000 USD base salary
Tools
LLM, Unity
AI focus
Lead teams working on AI-based content creation at scale and neural bots; build or scale LLM-powered product features and support AI-first engineering practices.
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