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Manager I, Applied AI - Distilled Models

Applied AI is where Datadog's ambitious AI bets get built and shipped (Bits Chat, updog). We sit at the intersection of research and product: turning promising capabilities from Datadog AI Research lab and the research community into produc

Company

Datadog

Location

Paris, France

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-06T13:17:27+00:00

Datadog's Applied AI group is hiring a Manager I to lead engineers and applied scientists building specialized, cost-efficient models that replace frontier models where they are not needed, plus AI security capabilities. The role covers technical direction, shipping from early research to production reliability, evaluation pipelines for quality and drift, and coaching engineers through hiring and growth. The posting asks for management experience, depth in LLMs, RAG, semantic search, agentic systems, deep learning or NLP, evaluation methods, product instinct, and 0-to-1 AI delivery. Based in Paris.