# Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Observability Native Models

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive work on fundamental research in post-training and multimodal observability-native decision models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance post-training approaches, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating across complex real-world systems. You will help 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. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: 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 evalua

- **Id**: 4263170
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datadog-staff-research-scientist-post-training-for-observability-native-models>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Paris, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T10:02:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T12:12:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4766
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Security, Log Management & Analytics, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 4992
- **Name**: Datadog
- **Domain**: datadoghq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datadog>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 149
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.678
- **Repost share**: 0.007
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 75
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T16:06:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 75
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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