# Distinguished Architect, AI

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $330,000-$440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Datadog is seeking a customer-focused, deeply technical Distinguished Architect to join our Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team. You will act as a technical multiplier for the world's leading AI labs and AI-native companies, bridging the gap between their bleeding-edge infrastructure aspirations and Datadog's technology roadmap.

**Responsibilities:**

- Demonstrate thought leadership in the AI/LLM space, influencing key decision makers and stakeholders by connecting technical capabilities to organizational and business impact.

- Strategically partner with highly technical Founders, Heads of Infrastructure, and Research Lead peers, guiding them on best practices and emerging industry trends in the AI/LLM space.

- Lead deep-dive architecture reviews and design engagements with customer teams and their leaders to share industry trends, best practices, and demonstrate how Datadog can support high-throughput hyper scale AI workloads.

- Identify emerging AI-native technology shifts and feed them directly back to Datadog Product Management.

- Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering and Marketing in providing high-quality technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers.

- Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems architecture, high-performance computing, or large-scale infrastructure.

- Deep familiarity with the AI/LLM ecosystem, accelerator hardware (GPUs/TPUs), and modern orchestration frameworks.

- Proven experience interacting with and influencing elite individual contributors, research scientists, and technical founders in flat, rapid-growth environments.

- Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex technical details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link product functionality to business objectives, value realization and ROI.

- Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time.

**Benefits:**

- Best-in-breed onboarding

- Generous global benefits

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

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

- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- LLM
- distributed systems architecture
- high-performance computing
- large-scale infrastructure
- GPUs
- TPUs
- orchestration frameworks

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