The opportunity
Datadog AI Research — Scholars Program with Carnegie Mellon University
What you'll do
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
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
What they're looking for
- 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.
