Research Manager - Foundation & World Models
Core
Lead a team in fundamental research on foundation models and world models, training large-scale multimodal models on distributed system telemetry data to advance observability and security.
Role type
Senior IC Research Manager (Foundation & World Models)
Builds
Large-scale pre-training and multimodal learning models for distributed systems observability
Domain
AI Research, Observability, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Foundation models, world models, multimodal learning, large-scale deep learning, pre-training, representation learning, research strategy, team leadership, technical mentorship (via careerplan.io/jobs/8240769-research-manager-foundation-world-models-at-datadog)
Preferred skills
Generative modeling, non-text data training, research publications, open-source contributions
Technologies
Large language models, telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces, topology, events)
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for research programs, mentor researchers and engineers, train large-scale multimodal models, collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to top-tier research publications
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership
