# Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models 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 (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-21
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8261937/?gh_jid=8261937&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in foundation models and world models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance large-scale pre-training and multimodal learning across the diverse signals generated by distributed systems, including metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or have equivalent experience, with deep expertise in areas such as foundation models, world models, multimodal learning, or generative modeling
- You have driven technically ambitious research at meaningful scale as an individual contributor, whether in an industry research lab, startup, academic environment, or another research setting
- You have extensive hands-on experience designing, training, and evaluating large-scale deep learning models (such as large language models), with experience in multimodal or non-text data considered a strong plus
- You have a track record of research impact through influential publications, significant model or system contributions, widely used research artifacts, or equivalent technical achievements
- You set technical direction through influence rather than authority, and you have mentored other researchers or engineers and elevated the quality of work around you
- You want to stay deeply hands-on in research for the long term, and you can communicate complex research findings effectively across technical and non-technical audiences

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