Senior Applied 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 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.
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Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.
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