Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents 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 post-training research for multimodal decision models and hybrid decision/generative systems to address ambitious research challenges in observability and security. Own research problems end to end, from framing the question through experimentation, model development, and evaluation Design and advance post-training methods and training loops for models operating in complex environments Build simulated…
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