Staff AI Engineer - MCP Services

Requirements:

• Experienced Staff-level engineer with a strong background in applied AI, agentic programming, and/or related areas
• Comfortable working in high ambiguity and fast-changing environments
• Skilled in building evaluation frameworks for LLM agents or AI systems
• Strong systems thinking and ability to reason across multiple agents, tools, and user scenarios
• Passionate about pushing boundaries in agent-augmented software

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 teams to align on shared standards for tool integration and data access

Nice to Haves:

• Bonus: Experience working with the MCP standard or contributing to agent-compatible tooling surfaces
• Familiarity with building and evaluating ReAct agentic loops

Perks and Benefits:

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