Research Manager - Foundation & World Models

📋 Description

• Lead research in foundation models, world models, and multimodal learning, setting the technical
• Guide and mentor researchers and research engineers while remaining closely involved in research
• Train large-scale multimodal models on diverse telemetry data, including metrics, logs, traces
• Advance approaches to pre-training, representation learning, world modeling, scaling, and
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Research, Product, and Engineering to translate
• Contribute to research publications, present at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience, with deep
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically ambitious research at meaningful scale in industry
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, training, or evaluating large-scale deep learning models
• Track record of research impact through influential publications, significant model/system
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing teams of researchers or engineers while remaining
• Ability to communicate complex research findings effectively across technical and non-technical

🎁 Benefits

• High income earning opportunities based on individual performance
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• Inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions