Staff AI Engineer - MCP Services

Requirements:

• Experienced Staff-level engineer with a background in applied AI or agentic programming
• Comfortable working in high ambiguity and fast-changing environments
• Skilled in building evaluation frameworks for LLM agents or AI systems
• Strong systems thinking and reasoning skills
• Passionate about agent-augmented software and evolving interfaces

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead efforts to improve Datadog’s public-facing MCP server
• Design and implement agentic tool surfaces tailored for evaluation and production use
• Build and maintain advanced evaluation pipelines for measuring agent performance
• Investigate and resolve failure cases by analyzing tool output
• Collaborate across Applied AI and internal teams for tool integration

Perks and Benefits:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture