Senior Applied AI Scientist: Production ML & LLM Architect

Lumen; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 160,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Bonus structure

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Job summary

Lumen is seeking highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientists to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions with measurable business impact.

You will combine deep expertise in AI with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with business and product teams to define success metrics and validate value via rapid experiments.
• Develop advanced AI systems leveraging ML, generative AI, retrieval, predictive modeling, and agentic architectures.
• Define evaluation frameworks and continuously improve quality, reliability, safety, performance, and cost.
• Partner with Engineering to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions using MLOps and LLMOps.
• Contribute reusable frameworks, evaluation assets, and technical standards across the enterprise.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Applied AI

Machine Learning

Python

LLMs

MLOps

Production AI

Communication

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen is seeking highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientists to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions with measurable business impact.

You will combine deep expertise in AI with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills.