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$215k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
73 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$192,000–$240,000
across 71 roles with salary data.
The Staff Applied Scientist - Dashboards joins the Dashboards product team to define and guarantee the quality of an AI-native control surface for metrics, logs, and traces. This role involves owning the evaluation strategy for the AI system, defining offline and online metrics for answer quality, tool-selection accuracy, retrieval relevance, latency, and token cost. You will build evaluation datasets, golden traces, and regression harnesses to catch quality changes before they reach customers. The position requires technical leadership through design reviews and mentorship while driving measurable improvements to context efficiency. Key requirements include a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field, over ten years of engineering or applied science experience, and a proven track record leading ML or GenAI initiatives from research through production in a product-driven environment.
What does a Applied Scientist earn?
Median $208800 from 61 postings across 10 companies.