Senior Lead AI Scientist - Production-Ready AI Solutions

Lumen; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 176,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Wellbeing programs

Bonus potential

Job summary

Lumen is seeking highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientists to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-scale AI solutions of all varieties: agents, generative, ML, etc. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate high-value opportunities into AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

You will combine deep expertise in AI and machine learning with strong software engineering,

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, or data science, including production AI deployments.
• Proven track record of delivering AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Deep expertise in machine learning, statistics, experimentation, predictive analytics, and modern AI techniques.
• Hands-on experience building LLM, RAG, agentic, and machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with business and product teams to identify opportunities, define success metrics, and validate value through rapid experimentation.
• Develop advanced AI systems leveraging machine learning, 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 best practices.
• Contribute reusable frameworks, evaluation assets, and technical standards that accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Applied AI

Machine learning

Python

MLOps

LLM/Agent AI

Stakeholder comms

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics

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 continuously improve production-scale AI solutions of all varieties: agents, generative, ML, etc. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate high-value opportunities into AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

You will combine deep expertise in AI and machine learning with strong software engineering,