Senior Applied Scientist - Behavior AI

About the role

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture: the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What they’re looking for

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• You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a related scientific field, or equivalent experience.
• You have hands-on experience training and fine-tuning models at scale, and deploying them into production systems with real throughput and cost constraints.
• You have a working knowledge of how GPUs work, and a track record of making models run efficiently within real hardware constraints.
• You have strong applied-mathematics fundamentals and reach for them naturally when designing and optimizing models.
• You have a real passion for applied mathematics, software design, and implementation. This role sits at the intersection of the three, and it is a requirement for the position.
• You care about code simplicity and performance, and you can build the data pipelines and the surrounding production code, in addition to the models themselves.
• You can explain complex ideas and trade-offs clearly to engineers and product partners, and you let a solid understanding of the product guide what you build next.
• Bonus: experience with efficient sequence architectures, model interpretability, or large-scale streaming systems.

Benefits & working conditions

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups, and to publish your work
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Competitive global benefits
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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