Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist

Lumen; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Flexible perks

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production AI solutions. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate high‑value opportunities into AI‑driven outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, while mentoring teams to deliver production‑grade AI systems.

Qualifications

• Seven plus years in applied AI, ML, or data science with production deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions with measurable business impact.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, and modern AI techniques.
• Hands-on with LLM, RAG, agentic and ML solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept to production.
• Partner with business and product teams to define success metrics and validate value.
• Develop advanced AI systems using ML, generative AI, retrieval, and predictive modeling.
• Define evaluation frameworks to improve quality, reliability, and safety.
• Collaborate with Engineering to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions with MLOps.
• Contribute reusable frameworks and technical standards to accelerate AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Senior AI leadership

Applied AI engineering

ML deployment

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MLOps/LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production AI solutions. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate high‑value opportunities into AI‑driven outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, while mentoring teams to deliver production‑grade AI systems.