Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist for Production AI Systems

Lumen; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Life benefits

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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 across agents, generative, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions that deliver 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, 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.
• Strong experience with AI evaluation, model performance optimization, responsible AI, and production monitoring.
• 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

Applied AI

Machine Learning

Python

LLMOps

MLOps

Product mindset

Communication

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science/AI

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 across agents, generative, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

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