Manager I, Engineering AI Platform, Annotation & Evaluation

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is toprovide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI LLMObs and all our AI research.

As an engineering manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team youll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: AI model evaluation both offline and online designing tooling and processes around human annotation and establishing the standard around synthetics and AI generated datasets.

Youll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. Youll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up.

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.

What Youll Do:

Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team directly managing 6-8 engineers
Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadogs storage and data pipelines to our needs
Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews design reviews and some coding

Who You Are:

A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams as a tech lead or people manager
Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams including engineering product and science and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders
You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
Strong technician with a mix of backend data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
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.

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:

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
An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

To conform to US export control regulations candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Required Experience:

Manager

What Youll Do:

Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team directly managing 6-8 engineers
Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadogs storage and data pipelines to our needs
Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews design reviews and some coding

Who You Are:

A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams as a tech lead or people manager
Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams including engineering product and science and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders
You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
Strong technician with a mix of backend data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
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:

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
An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
Competitive global benefits

Required Experience:

Manager