Senior AI Researcher for Digital Experience Monitoring

Your role at Dynatrace
We believe in innovation through applied research. Across our European R&D offices—including Linz, Barcelona, and Vienna—engineers and researchers collaborate to build next-generation technologies that turn complex telemetry into clear, actionable insights.

Our focus is real-time analytics at massive scale. Processing millions of metrics, logs, traces, and RUM events demands efficient algorithms, scalable architectures, and robust pipelines for ingest, storage, and low-latency anomaly detection.

Core Research Areas Include

• Transaction processing, query optimization, and indexing/search
• Distributed systems, stream processing, and large-scale data analysis
• Databases, storage, caching, and new system architectures
• LLM/RAG-based insights and pattern detection for observability use cases

These efforts enable rapid prototyping, measurable production impact, and a clear path from research to roadmap.

Role Description
We're hiring an applied AI researcher who bridges product management and software engineering. You will own end-to-end discovery and prototyping for AI in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): understand user pain points and telemetry signals (RUM, logs, traces, metrics), identify high-impact AI opportunities, build proof-of-concepts with our in-house stack and modern AI tooling, and partner with PMs and engineering to land them on the roadmap.

Your Tasks

• Bridge product and engineering to discover, prototype, and validate AI capabilities for DEM.
• Conduct applied research in scalable data processing; design efficient algorithms and architectures for large-scale data (e.g., pattern detection, multi-dimensional cube analytics).
• Build preprocessing pipelines for high-volume telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, RUM) and apply LLMs/generative AI to surface user insights.
• Rapidly prototype features (e.g., incident summaries, anomaly/root-cause hints, UX pattern insights), harden for scale, and define success metrics.
• Collaborate with engineering and stakeholders to operationalize algorithms; present findings to PM/dev teams and drive roadmap inclusion.
• Ensure privacy, security, and responsible AI; monitor production impact and iterate based on feedback.

What Will Help You Succeed

• PhD/MSc in Computer Science, AI, or related field; track record of independent research (publications/conferences).
• Strong software engineering background (ideally Java) and experience building data analytics systems with ML frameworks.
• Expertise/interest in performance optimization and algorithms (indexing, pattern matching, sketching, query optimization).
• Hands-on with streaming/batch data (Kafka, Flink/Spark), OLAP/time-series analytics, and vector search/RAG with LLMs.
• Familiarity with observability/DEM signals (RUM, logs, traces, metrics), anomaly detection, and multivariate time-series modeling.
• Clear communicator with strong stakeholder skills; excellent English (oral and written).

Why you will love being a Dynatracer

• A one-product software company creating real value for the largest enterprises and millions of end customers globally, striving for a world where software works perfectly.
• Working with the latest technologies and at the forefront of innovation in tech on scale; but also, in other areas like marketing, design, or research.
• A team that thinks outside the box, welcomes unconventional ideas, and pushes boundaries.
• An environment that fosters innovation, enables creative collaboration, and allows you to grow.
• A globally unique and tailor-made career development program recognizing your potential, promoting your strengths, and supporting you in achieving your career goals.
• A truly international mindset with Dynatracers from different countries & cultures all over the world, and English as the corporate language that connects us all
• A culture that is being shaped by the diverse personalities, expertise, and backgrounds of our global team.

Compensation And Rewards

• We offer attractive compensation packages and stock purchase options with numerous benefits and advantages.