Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models is open at Datadog in New York, New York, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The posting gives a salary of $320K - $400K. Posted on Oct 7, 2026, and still on Datadog’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Drive research in foundation models and multimodal learning, shaping the technical direction for ambitious research programs grounded in observability and security Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and evaluation Train large-scale multimodal models on diverse telemetry data, including metrics, logs, traces, topology, events, and other non-text…
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