AI Research Scientist

Datadog

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

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TL;DR · AI Research Scientist

As an AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will join a specialized team to conduct research in generative AI and machine learning while collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate findings into practical solutions. You will build multimodal foundation models and trained agents focused on cloud observability and security challenges, specifically targeting areas like forecasting, anomaly detection, and automated SRE incident response. Your daily work involves training models on large-scale telemetry data including metrics, logs, traces, and topology using PyTorch and distributed training frameworks like DeepSpeed or Megatron-LM. You will also design simulation environments and RL training loops for autonomous agents. The role requires expertise in reinforcement learning, world models, and high-performance computing techniques such as CUDA to solve complex problems within the cloud infrastructure domain.

What you'll do

  • Conduct research in generative AI to build specialized foundation models and trained agents for observability.
  • Train multimodal models on large-scale telemetry data including metrics, logs, traces, topology, and events.
  • Design and build simulated environments and RL training loops for on-policy agent training and evaluation.
  • Translate research advances into product features by collaborating with cross-functional engineering and product teams.
  • Stay at the forefront of foundation models, world models, and reinforcement learning research.
  • Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks.

What we're looking for

  • Hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field with equivalent experience.
  • Possess deep expertise in generative modeling, world models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning.
  • Have extensive experience designing and implementing deep learning models and agents.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with distributed training frameworks like DeepSpeed or Megatron-LM and the PyTorch library.
  • Maintain a track record of impactful publications at top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or TMLR.
  • Be familiar with efficient training, post-training, and inference techniques for large foundation models.
  • Ability to communicate complex research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience in GPU programming, CUDA optimization, or building production data pipelines is preferred.

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