Staff AI Engineer Simulation Environments
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Datadog is building the platform that empowers engineers to observe understand and act on their systems. As we expand into the world of intelligent systems our Simulation Environments team is pioneering high-fidelity synthetic environments to safely train and evaluate AI agents. As a Staff Engineer on this team youll play a foundational role in designing and scaling this simulation platform. Youll collaborate across AI research and product teams to deliver environments where AI agents can learn reason and take actionpushing the boundaries of observability and automation.
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 Youll Do:
- Design and build high-fidelity simulation environments that model complex distributed systems with realism and scalability
- Develop synthetic data generation tools and evaluation pipelines to train and assess AI agents across Datadog products
- Collaborate with AI research and product engineering teams to integrate models into simulation and production workflows
- Define architecture and technical direction for Datadogs emerging simulation platform
- Mentor engineers and contribute to shaping the culture of a new cross-functional team
Who You Are:
- You have a BS MS PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
- Strong experience in distributed systems backend or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience building or deploying ML/AI systems beyond consumption of existing models
- Familiarity with synthetic data simulation frameworks or generative modeling approaches
- Proven ability to turn ambiguity into clarity and define new systems from the ground up
- Skilled communicator and team leader especially in cross-functional and early-stage environments
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:
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
