Applied Science Intern
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Job Description
The Team:
The Applied AI team designs and builds AI features integrated into the Datadog app. Our work is focused around four pillars: proactive alerts investigation and remediation assistance incident management and powering Datadog AI products (LLM Observability Bits SRE Agent Search Autocomplete Sensitive Data Scanner).
We also run the Applied AI Research Lab that advances our time-series foundation model (Toto) and agentic investigation flowswork that feeds directly into customer-facing features.
You can read about some of our work in our Datadog blog:anomaly detection error outliers faulty deployment detection and more recently we published a paper called Toto which is our state-of-the-art time series foundational model. You can find the model on HuggingFace along with a new benchmark dataset for observability time series.
The Opportunity:
As an intern on the Applied AI team you will join a cross-functional team of engineers and applied scientists. You will work on existing or new Datadog products improving the quality of the existing models that power these features or develop new models to support new products. You will also work closely with our engineering and product partners to productionize the models developed and get the opportunity to develop your product mindset collaboration and communication skills.
What Youll Do:
- Design solutions for our different use cases and research and benchmark relevant state-of-the-art models to find the best fit for our use cases
- Leverage generative AI machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new highly scalable product features
- Contribute to the development deployment and monitoring of new and existing features in production
- Participate in our paper reading groups by reading and presenting the latest academic research papers back to the team
- Explore analyze and tell the story behind the extremely high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems
- Help maintain and monitor the models services and infrastructure owned by your team
- Investigate emerging techniques and experiment with novel model architectures to identify opportunities for improving Datadogs products and shaping future research directions
Who You Are:
- You will graduate in 2026 with a degree in machine learning artificial intelligence statistics or a relevant field
- You have experience building machine learning models as part of your studies or for personal projects
- You have strong coding skills and a willingness to learn new languages
- You can explain complex concepts in a simple way enabling you to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences alike
- You have a strong interest in working in data and AI
- Youre excited to use AI techniques in production to improve our features and build new products in a product-driven company
- You are available to complete a 6-month internship starting in February March April May or June 2026 (we are unable to accommodate internships starting at any other time)
Bonus Points:
- You have experience applying machine learning to real business problems
- Youve written production data pipelines
- You have experience working with high-scale systems and data
At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Mentorship opportunities with team members leadership and beyond
- Continuous professional development and product training opportunities
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events
- An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Relocation support and travel benefits
- Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday Wednesday and Friday
- Beautiful offices in convenient locations
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Please ensure that you submit your CV/resume in English.
If possible please apply using your personal email address instead of your university email address.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
