Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Observability Native Models

Datadog·Paris, France·Posted 13 November 2026

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As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research ( DAIR ), you will drive work on fundamental research in post-training and multimodal observability-native decision models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance post-training approaches, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating across complex real-world systems. You will help set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products. 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 You'll Do: Drive post-training research for multimodal decision models and hybrid decision/generative systems to address ambitious research challenges in observability and security. Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and…

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