Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist, Production AI Solutions

Lumen; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

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Health benefits

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Job summary

Lumen is seeking a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions delivering measurable business impact.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, is hands-on, and can

Qualifications

• Seven Plus years of experience in applied AI, ML, or data science with production 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 experience with AI evaluation, model performance optimization, responsible AI, and production monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python and ML 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 deploy 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 experience

Production AI deployments

Deep ML / statistics

LLM / RAG / agentic

Python

MLOps / LLMOps

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Cloud AI platforms

Job description

Lumen is seeking a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate opportunities into AI-powered solutions delivering measurable business impact.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, is hands-on, and can