Teams at DuckDuckGo

Lead design engineering across DuckDuckGo products, combining product design expertise with hands-on coding to prototype, specify, and ensure high-quality implementation. Collaborate closely with engineers, shape design systems, improve workflows, conduct research and experimentation, and autonomously deliver impactful projects for millions of users. Help establish and grow the company’s design engineering discipline while advancing privacy-focused product experiences.

Lead high-complexity data science initiatives improving search ranking, retrieval, relevance, and evaluation. Develop and deploy production machine-learning and NLP solutions, investigate LLM-based ranking features, optimize SQL queries, and work with sparse privacy-preserving data. Define strategies for ambiguous problems, guide other data scientists, collaborate with product teams, and own projects from scoping through production.

Lead and own major components of DuckDuckGo's privacy technology using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl. Design and implement privacy features, improve search and AI features without compromising privacy, build tracker-detection features, participate in privacy reviews and audits, and mentor engineers over time.