Datadog
Research Science Intern (PhD)
$110K–$140K
New York, New York, USA +3 · Internship · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, NY, United States
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Education
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program at Carnegie Mellon in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Some roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government, to conform to US export control regulations.
About the job
Conduct an independent, end-to-end research project with Datadog AI Research on practical machine learning challenges, and publish findings that may inform production systems.
What you'll do
- Frame a research question, run experiments, and write up results.
- Collaborate with a DAIR mentor and stay connected with the faculty advisor and lab.
- Publish the work and use it toward the dissertation; see successful research reach production.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a Carnegie Mellon PhD program in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related field.
- Depth in at least one research-relevant area.
- Comfort training models, working with GPUs, and reading and reimplementing recent papers.
- Research evidence such as papers, preprints, open-source contributions, or a lab project; faculty advisor support.
Pay
$110,000 — $140,000 USD (yearly salary; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
GPUs
AI focus
Research on specialized foundation models, post-training and evaluating AI agents, and frontier-scale machine learning systems for observability and software operation.
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