Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist - Production ML Systems

Lumen; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen seeks a highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative, ML, and related areas. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI impact.

You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, prototyping and scaling AI systems while guiding stakeholders through

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of experience in applied AI, ML, or data science, with production AI deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions with measurable business outcomes.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, predictive analytics, or 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, or similar.
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, cloud AI platforms, APIs, and software engineering best practices.

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

Data science

Python

MLOps

LLMOps

Stakeholder comms

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen seeks a highly technical, product-minded Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative, ML, and related areas. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI impact.

You will combine deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, prototyping and scaling AI systems while guiding stakeholders through