Senior Applied Scientist - Behavior AI
Core
Building small, custom AI models for high-throughput stream processing to detect anomalies in Datadog's security products across billions of logs and events in real time.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (ML Systems & Optimization)
Builds
Custom mid-size anomaly detection models, training data pipelines, and agentic validation layers for Datadog's security platform.
Domain
Cybersecurity / Observability / High-throughput Stream Processing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale model training and fine-tuning, GPU optimization and hardware constraints, applied mathematics for model reformulation, stream processing architecture, production code and data pipeline development, model interpretability.
Preferred skills
Efficient sequence architectures, large-scale streaming systems, model interpretability.
Technologies
GPUs, stream processing frameworks, production ML deployment stacks.
Responsibilities
Design and build custom models for high-throughput stream processing; optimize models for hardware/software constraints; build training data pipelines; integrate models into production with focus on latency and cost; plan model improvement roadmaps; build agentic layers for validation; create interpretability tools; maintain model services and infrastructure.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
