Staff AI Engineer (Data Visualization)

TL;DR

Staff AI Engineer (AI/Data Visualization): Leading the design and delivery of AI-native experiences for dashboards and investigation workflows with an accent on LLM integration and system reliability. Focus on developing agentic systems, prompt engineering, and evaluation frameworks to ensure trustworthy customer outcomes.

Location: Hybrid in France or Spain (Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Madrid, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Sophia Antipolis)

Company

Datadog is a monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor their entire infrastructure and application stack.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences across visualization and investigation surfaces.
• Develop systems combining deterministic capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to ensure explainable outcomes.
• Drive innovation in context engineering, prompt engineering, and AI application reliability.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to optimize investigation workflows and insight discovery.
• Build integrations allowing Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms and agents.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to establish AI engineering best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience operating at a Staff Engineer scope.
• Hands-on experience delivering production AI-powered products using LLM technologies.
• Expertise in building reliable systems that manage model non-determinism through evaluation frameworks and testing.
• Product-oriented mindset with the ability to connect technical decisions to business impact.
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Must be based in one of the specified office locations in France or Spain.

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic systems and conversational interfaces.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted investigations, observability, or developer tools.
• Background in data visualization.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive product training and continuous career development paths.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy programs for internal networking.
• Inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds.
• Equity packages including new hire RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Free global mental health benefits through Spring Health.