Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents
Datadog · New York, New York, USA; Pittsburgh
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- Company
- Datadog
- Location
- New York, New York, USA; Pittsburgh
- Salary
- $320,000 — $400,000
- Posted
- October 7, 2026
About this job
As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in post-training and autonomous agents as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating across complex real-world systems. You will set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products. What You'll Do: 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…
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