# Research Science Intern (PhD) at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Internship
- Location: New York, New York, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8203657/?gh_jid=8203657
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-research-science-intern-phd/

## About the role

You will frame a problem, run your own experiments, and write up what you find, with compute and data at a scale most academic labs cannot provide. You will collaborate with colleagues working on the same questions. Internship projects are shaped with your DAIR mentor and your CMU faculty advisor. You do not need prior experience with observability, monitoring, or infrastructure.

## What they're looking for

- Currently enrolled in a PhD program at Carnegie Mellon in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related field
- Depth in at least one area relevant to the research above
- Comfort running real experiments — training models, working with GPUs, reading and reimplementing recent papers
- Evidence you can do research: conference or workshop papers, preprints, open-source contributions, or a lab project you can discuss in depth
- Research taste. You can explain why a problem matters and what would change if it were solved
- Honest empiricism. You report the ablation that didn't work

Tags: Engineering Interns