AI Research Scientist
Datadog
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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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As an AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will partner with research engineers to solve fundamental problems in cloud observability and security. You will conduct research in generative AI and machine learning, building specialized foundation models and trained agents for the observability domain. Your daily work involves training multimodal models on large-scale telemetry data including metrics, logs, traces, topology, and events using distributed training infrastructure like DeepSpeed and Megatron-LM. You will also design simulation environments and RL training loops to develop autonomous agents for incident response and infrastructure optimization. The role requires expertise in PyTorch, reinforcement learning, and advanced inference techniques for large foundation models. You will contribute to research publications at venues like NeurIPS and ICML while collaborating with product teams to integrate world modeling into the company's core offerings.
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