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Research Science Intern (PhD)

Datadog· Datadog AI Research (DAIR)
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Hybrid (New York, NY / Pittsburgh, PA)$110k - $140kinternPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Datadog AI Research — Scholars Program with Carnegie Mellon University. A PhD-focused internship partnering with CMU to tackle open research problems in observability, software operation, and AI systems at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Own a research project end to end: framing the question, running the experiments, writing it up
  • Work directly with a DAIR mentor engaged in the same problem, and stay connected to your advisor and lab
  • Publish, and use the work toward your dissertation
  • See research reach production, when it works

Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD program at Carnegie Mellon in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related field
  • Depth in at least one area relevant to the research above
  • Comfort running real experiments — training models, working with GPUs, reading and reimplementing recent papers
  • Evidence you can do research: conference or workshop papers, preprints, open-source contributions, or a lab project you can discuss in depth
  • Research taste. You can explain why a problem matters and what would change if it were solved.
  • Honest empiricism. You report the ablation that didn't work.
  • Support from your faculty advisor.

Skills

Required:PhD enrollmentExperimentationResearch disseminationCollaboration with mentors

Benefits

  • Datadog offers a competitive salary for this role and may include additional compensation elements.
  • a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, paid time off, and benefits related to traveling and relocation, if eligible.
  • The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $110,000—$140,000 USD
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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