Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist: Production ML & GenAI

Lumen; United States; Remote; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-scale AI solutions across AI workloads. You will collaborate with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI-driven impact.

The role combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering and product delivery skills, emphasizing rapid prototyping, evaluation, and scalable systems in a remote-friendly, high accountability environment.

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.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.

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

MLOps

LLMOps

Production deployments

Agent-based AI

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-scale AI solutions across AI workloads. You will collaborate with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI-driven impact.

The role combines deep AI expertise with strong software engineering and product delivery skills, emphasizing rapid prototyping, evaluation, and scalable systems in a remote-friendly, high accountability environment.