AI Research Scientist (Generative AI)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid work indicated.

Company

Datadog is a global SaaS company building cloud observability and security products for monitoring customers’ technology stacks.

What you will do

• Conduct research in generative AI and machine learning, developing specialized foundation models and trained agents for observability.
• Train multimodal models on metrics, logs, traces, topology, and events using distributed training infrastructure.
• Design simulated environments, reinforcement-learning loops, and evaluation infrastructure for autonomous agents.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to integrate world modeling and autonomous-agent capabilities into products.
• Advance research in foundation models, world models, and RL-based agents.
• Publish research, present at top-tier conferences, and open-source selected model artifacts and benchmarks.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in generative modeling, world models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing deep learning models and agents.
• Strong background in distributed training frameworks such as DeepSpeed or Megatron-LM and ML libraries including PyTorch.
• Impactful publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or TMLR.
• Knowledge of efficient training, post-training, and inference techniques for large foundation models, plus the ability to explain complex research to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience connecting AI research with real-world product applications and scalable deployment.
• Experience writing production data pipelines and applications.
• Hands-on GPU programming and optimization, including CUDA.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive global benefits that vary by country of employment and employment type.
• New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Collaboration with colleagues across Datadog offices in New York City and Paris.
• Opportunities to attend and present at conferences and meetups.
• Mentor and buddy programs, employee resource groups, and an inclusive company culture.