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DatadogDatadogNew York, NY

Manager II, Engineering - Applied AI (NorAm)

Lead multiple engineering teams building AI-powered features for Datadog's observability platform, including ML models, agents, and natural language interfaces. Requires deep AI/ML expertise, experience shipping production AI products, and strong people management skills.

234k – 300k/yr
HybridEngineering Management

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Lead and grow multiple teams of engineers, applied scientists, and managers working on AI-powered features across the Datadog platform
  • Set technical vision and strategy for your area in partnership with Product
  • Ship AI products end-to-end, from data pipelines and model training through evaluation, deployment, and production operations
  • Coach and develop senior engineers and managers, building a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and clear feedback
  • Drive collaboration across Applied AI, product, and partner engineering teams to deliver on Datadog's AI priorities
  • Build evaluation and quality practices for AI systems, offline benchmarks, online metrics, and continuous improvement loops
  • Own operational excellence for your teams' systems: reliability, on-call, incident response, and technical quality
  • Hire and plan for organizational growth as the AI group scales
  • Help shape Datadog's broader AI roadmap and promote best practices in ML engineering and career development across the organization

Who You Are

  • An experienced technical leader with a strong background in AI, machine learning, or data science
  • Proven track record building and shipping ML or AI-powered products in production
  • Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams, including senior engineers and engineering managers
  • Deep technical expertise in one or more areas: large language models, agentic systems, anomaly detection, time-series modeling, NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, or ML infrastructure
  • Comfortable partnering with Product to set vision and strategy, and turning ambiguous problems into clear plans
  • A strong people manager who can attract, develop, and retain top AI and engineering talent
  • BS/MS/PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits and Growth

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
  • Giving programs

Skills

Machine LearningAILLMsAgentic SystemsAnomaly DetectionTime-Series ModelingNLPRetrieval-Augmented GenerationML InfrastructureData Pipelines

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