Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist — Production ML

Lumen; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Lifestyle perks

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 AI, ML, and more. 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 with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery

Qualifications

• Seven plus years in applied AI, ML, or data science with production deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Deep expertise in ML, 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, 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 experience

Machine learning

Data science

Production AI deployments

Python

ML frameworks

LLM

RAG

Agentic architectures

MLOps

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/Statistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

APIs

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 AI, ML, and more. 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 with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery