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DatadogDatadogNew York, NY

Distinguished Architect, AI

As a Distinguished Architect, AI, you will be a technical multiplier for leading AI labs and AI-native companies, bridging their infrastructure aspirations with Datadog's technology roadmap. You will ensure the platform solves unique observability challenges for training and deploying foundational models at scale.

300k – 484k
Hybrid10+ YOEAI Research

About the role

What You’ll Do:

  • Leadership: Demonstrate thought leadership in the AI/LLM space. Influence key decision makers and stakeholders by connecting technical capabilities to organizational and business impact.
  • Advisory: Strategically partner with highly technical Founders, Heads of Infrastructure, and Research Lead peers. Guide them on best practices and emerging industry trends in the AI/LLM space. Lead high-level technical and architectural conversations around AI adoption.
  • Presentations: Lead deep-dive architecture reviews and design engagements with customer teams and their leaders to share industry trends, best practices, and demonstrate how Datadog can support high-throughput hyper scale AI workloads.
  • GTM: Identify emerging AI-native technology shifts and feed them directly back to Datadog Product Management. Co-create custom observability integrations and solutions alongside Product SAs to keep Datadog at the absolute forefront of the AI stack.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering and Marketing in providing high-quality technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers.
  • Hiring: Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.

Who You Are:

  • Industry Experience: 10+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems architecture, high-performance computing, or large-scale infrastructure. Deep familiarity with the AI/LLM ecosystem, accelerator hardware (GPUs/TPUs), and modern orchestration frameworks.
  • Strategic Thinker: Able to think long term and creatively about a wide variety of technical and business challenges
  • Stakeholder Management: Proven experience interacting with and influencing elite individual contributors, research scientists, and technical founders in flat, rapid-growth environments.
  • Technologist: A true close-to-the-metal technologist who maintains deep hands-on credibility and can white-board architectural solutions seamlessly with senior engineers. Strong understanding of best practices and real world challenges AI/LLM Ops and LLM Observability (LLMO).
  • Presenter: Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex technical details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas.
  • Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link product functionality to business objectives, value realization and ROI.
  • Travel: Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, Master’s degree preferred

Benefits and Growth:

  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $300,000—$484,000 USD

Skills

Distributed Systems ArchitectureHigh-Performance ComputingLarge-Scale InfrastructureAi/Llm EcosystemGPUTpuOrchestration FrameworksAi/Llm OpsLlm Observability

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