Senior Applied Scientist, Behavior AI

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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TL;DR · Senior Applied Scientist, Behavior AI

As a Senior Applied Scientist - Behavior AI, you will join the Behavior AI team to develop AI-based anomaly detection for security products. You will design and build custom mid-size models tailored for high-throughput stream processing, managing the entire lifecycle from training at scale to production deployment. Your daily work involves optimizing models by balancing mathematical reformulations with hardware constraints like GPU utilization and latency. Key responsibilities include building training data pipelines, developing an agentic layer for output validation, and creating interpretability tools for detection engineers. You will utilize advanced mathematics, software design, and implementation skills to solve the challenge of maintaining high-quality detection while ensuring models remain small enough to run efficiently on massive streams of logs and telemetry records in real time.

What does a Applied Scientist earn?

Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build custom mid-size models for high-throughput stream processing.
  • Optimize model performance by finding mathematical reformulations that fit hardware and software constraints.
  • Build training data pipelines from raw streams to training-ready datasets when they do not exist.
  • Integrate models into production with a focus on GPU utilization, latency, and cost per record.
  • Develop an agentic layer to analyze, validate, and act on model outputs.
  • Create lightweight interpretability tools to make model behavior explainable to end users.
  • Maintain and monitor the models, services, and infrastructure while participating in on-call rotations.

What we're looking for

  • Hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a related scientific field.
  • Possess hands-on experience training and fine-tuning models at scale for production systems with real throughput and cost constraints.
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge of GPU operations and a track record of optimizing models for hardware constraints.
  • Possess strong fundamentals in applied mathematics to design and optimize models.
  • Exhibit a passion for the intersection of applied mathematics, software design, and implementation.
  • Ability to write high-quality production code and build data pipelines alongside model development.
  • Communicate complex ideas and trade-offs clearly to engineers and product partners.
  • Experience with efficient sequence architectures, model interpretability, or large-scale streaming systems is a plus.

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