Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist for Production AI

Lumen Technologies, Inc.; Oregon; On-site; USD 160,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, and ML workloads.

You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable value and craft scalable AI platforms. You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering and MLOps practices while mentoring teams and promoting responsible AI and cost-efficient deployments

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.
• Proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, MLflow, or similar technologies.
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, cloud AI platforms, APIs, and software engineering best practices.
• Strong product mindset, problem-solving skills, 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 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

Python

MLOps

LLMOps

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Cloud AI platforms

Agentic AI

Communication

Product mindset

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI, ML, Statistics

Tools

ML frameworks

APIs

Job description

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, and ML workloads.

You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable value and craft scalable AI platforms. You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering and MLOps practices while mentoring teams and promoting responsible AI and cost-efficient deployments