Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring
Technical leader on Datadog's APM team building and deploying GenAI/ML models for agentic investigations, automated troubleshooting, and incident triaging. Requires 10+ years experience leading large-scale GenAI initiatives end-to-end in product environments.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production.
- Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools.
- Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user.
- Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
- Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.
Who You Are
- BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale GenAI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment.
- Significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, or evaluation.
- Ability to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and solve ambiguous challenges.
Skills
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Model Deployment, Model Training, Fine-Tuning, Model Evaluation, Benchmarking, Technical Leadership
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