Staff AI Engineer - Graphing

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join Datadog’s Graphing organization. The Graphing organization develops Datadog’s suite of core tools: Dashboards for flexible display of live display of real-time insights, Notebooks for collaborative investigations and technical documentation, Sheets for manual curation of tabular data, search capabilities powering user queries, and powerful data-visualization toolkits that are used across Datadog. These product lines enable a majority of Datadog users’ daily workflows. This gives us a powerful opportunity for us to be industry leaders in AI-driven workflows for natural-language-queries, graph generation, automated investigations, and more.

This role requires a technical leader with deep AI/ML expertise to help power these workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. You will work with leaders to identify and prioritize opportunities to apply GenAI models in graphing workflows. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a leadership track record who can help us excel in this exciting new domain.

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:

• Act as a technical leader driving GenAI/ML projects from concept to production.


• Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.


• Establish a high standard of technical excellence for ML development in Graphing


• Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups


• Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user


• Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience


• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead


• Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment


• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation


• Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and solve ambiguous challenges

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.


• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .


• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn


• Competitive global benefits


• Continuous professional development

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.