# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Paris
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Applied AI team at Datadog designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will work on building models and algorithms for machine learning powered features within the Datadog platform.

Responsibilities:

- Design solutions for different use cases, researching and benchmarking relevant algorithms to find the best fit

- Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new scalable product features

- Develop, deploy, and monitor new and existing features to production

- Participate in the journal club, reading and presenting the latest academic research papers to the team

- Explore, analyze, and tell the story behind high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems

- Maintain and monitor the models, services, and infrastructure owned by your team

- Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Requirements:

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related scientific field or equivalent experience

- Experience working with high-scale systems and datasets, including building models, applying machine learning to real business problems, and writing production data pipelines

- Ability to explain complex ideas and algorithms to non-technical audiences

- Care about code simplicity and performance

- Excitement to work on a user-facing product

Benefits:

- Competitive global benefits

- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

- Opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across Datadog offices in New York City and Paris

- Opportunity to attend and present at conferences and meetups

- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

- An inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Algorithm Design
- Statistical Techniques
- Data Analysis
- Programming

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