Remote Senior Lead AI Scientist — Scalable AI Solutions

Lumen; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 185,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and related areas. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions delivering measurable business impact.

You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, acting as a hands-on practitioner who prototypes,

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, or data science with production deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions that create measurable business value.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, and modern AI techniques.
• Hands-on experience building LLM, RAG, agentic, and ML solutions.
• Experience with AI evaluation, model performance, and production monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, MLflow).
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, cloud AI platforms, APIs, and software engineering best practices.
• Strong product mindset and ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with business and product teams to identify opportunities and validate value via rapid experimentation.
• Develop AI systems leveraging ML, generative AI, retrieval, and agentic architectures.
• Define evaluation frameworks and improve quality, reliability, safety, and cost.
• Collaborate with Engineering to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions using MLOps/LLMOps.
• Create reusable frameworks and assets to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Applied AI

Machine Learning

Python

MLOps

LLMOps

Product mindset

Stakeholder communication

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science/AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and related areas. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions delivering measurable business impact.

You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, acting as a hands-on practitioner who prototypes,