Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist: Production ML & LLMs

Lumen; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen seeks a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions, partnering with business, product, and engineering leadership. You will prototype, evaluate, and scale AI systems while guiding stakeholders through technical and business tradeoffs.

The role requires deep AI expertise, hands-on ML experience, and a strong product mindset to deliver measurable business impact in a fast-paced 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.

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

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science/AI

PhD in related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

AWS

Job description

Lumen seeks a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions, partnering with business, product, and engineering leadership. You will prototype, evaluate, and scale AI systems while guiding stakeholders through technical and business tradeoffs.

The role requires deep AI expertise, hands-on ML experience, and a strong product mindset to deliver measurable business impact in a fast-paced environment.