AI Research Scientist

Datadog

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Remote
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$320,000–$400,000 / yr
Posted
100 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

Datadog currently has 266 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · AI Research Scientist

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.

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, and topology.
  • Design and build simulated environments and RL training loops for autonomous agent evaluation.
  • Translate research advances into product features by collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Develop infrastructure to train agents that perform SRE incident response and code repair.
  • Publish research findings at 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 ML libraries like PyTorch.
  • 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 with GPU programming, CUDA, or building production data pipelines is preferred.

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