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Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models

DatadogNew York, NY

$320,000–400,000/yr

Posted Oct 7, 2026

What you’d do

Drive research on foundation models, world models, and multimodal learning, training large-scale models on telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. Own research problems end to end and mentor researchers while collaborating with Research, Product, and Engineering teams. Found on the employer's careers page on Oct 7, 2026. Apply through the link.

You’ll need

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Deep expertise in foundation models, world models, multimodal learning, or generative modeling
  • Experience training large-scale multimodal models
  • Research experience in pre-training, representation learning, scaling, or evaluation
  • Mentoring researchers and research engineers

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