Senior Lead AI Scientist - Production ML & Generative AI

Lumen; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 194,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientists to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions. 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 software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, prototyping and scaling AI systems while guiding stakeholders through

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of experience in applied AI, ML, or data science, including production AI deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions with measurable business outcomes.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, predictive analytics, and modern AI techniques.
• Hands-on experience building LLM, RAG, agentic, and ML solutions.
• Strong AI evaluation, model performance optimization, responsible AI, and production monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as 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 with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Applied AI

Machine learning

Python

PyTorch

Model evaluation

MLOps

LLMOps

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science / AI / ML

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. 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 software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, prototyping and scaling AI systems while guiding stakeholders through