Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents

• Drive research in agent post-training and reinforcement learning, shaping the technical direction of ambitious research programs grounded in observability and security
• Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and evaluation
• Design and advance reinforcement learning approaches, post-training methods, and training loops for agents operating in complex environments
• Build simulated environments, synthetic data generation approaches, and evaluation frameworks that enable scalable agent training and rigorous measurement
• Raise the technical bar across the team by reviewing research directions, mentoring researchers and research engineers, and setting standards for experimental rigor
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Research, Product, and Engineering to translate advances in autonomous agents into scalable Datadog capabilities
• Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML, and help open-source key model artifacts and benchmarks
• You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or have equivalent experience, with deep expertise in areas such as reinforcement learning, AI agents, post-training, 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 and implementing reinforcement learning systems, agent training methods, simulated environments, synthetic data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks
• 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
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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