Data Scientist - Intern

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The Data Science team designs and builds AI features integrated into the Datadog app. Our work is focussed around four pillars: proactive alerts, investigation and remediation help, incident management, and powering other Datadog’s products.

As an intern on the Data Science team, you will join a cross-functional team of engineers and data scientists. You will work on existing or new Datadog products, improving the quality of the existing algorithms that power these features or develop new algorithms to support new products. You will also work closely with our engineering and product partners and get the opportunity to develop your product mindset, collaboration, and communication skills.

• Design solutions for our different use cases, research and benchmark relevant algorithms to find the best fit for our use cases
• Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new highly scalable product features
• Contribute to the development, deployment and monitoring of new and existing features in production
• Participate in our journal club by reading and presenting back to the team the latest academic research papers 
• Explore, analyze and tell the story behind the extremely high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems 
• Help maintain and monitor the models, services and infrastructure owned by your team

• You will graduate in 2025 with a degree in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, or a relevant field 
• You have experience building machine learning models as part of your studies or for personal projects 
• You have strong coding skills and a willingness to learn new languages
• You can explain complex concepts in a simple way enabling you to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences alike
• You have a strong interest in working in data and AI 
• You're excited about building a product and working in a product-led company
• You are available to complete a 6-month internship starting in February, March, April, May, or June 2025 (we are unable to accommodate internships starting at any other time)

Bonus Points:

• You have experience applying machine learning to real business problems
• You've written production data pipelines
• You have experience working with high-scale systems and data

• Mentorship opportunities with team members, leadership, and beyond
• Continuous professional development and product training opportunities
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Relocation support and travel benefits
• Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
• Beautiful offices in convenient locations

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.