Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI - Natural Language & Conversational Interfaces

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers and applied scientists building NLQ translation systems, conversational agents, or AI-powered interfaces.
• Own the delivery of high-quality natural language capabilities, from semantic understanding and contextual retrieval to query generation and agentic reasoning.
• Build products that create data flywheels: design systems that capture user intent and feedback to continuously improve model quality and train differentiating capabilities.
• Drive evaluation and iteration practices for AI systems, including building offline and online evaluation pipelines to measure quality and detect drift.
• Partner with product managers and cross-functional teams to expand AI capabilities across the Datadog platform.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• 401k
• Dental
• Employee Stock Purchase
• Equity
• Gym/Wellness
• Health Insurance
• Mental Health
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave

Culture

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