Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist — Production-Scale AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continually improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and related systems. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate high-value opportunities into AI-driven outcomes that deliver measurable business impact.

You will blend deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills.

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of applied AI, machine learning, or data science with production deployments.
• Proven track record 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 stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with business and product teams to identify opportunities and validate value through rapid experimentation.
• Develop advanced AI systems leveraging ML, generative AI, retrieval, predictive modeling, and agentic architectures.
• Define evaluation frameworks and continuously improve quality, reliability, safety, performance, and cost.
• Collaborate with Engineering to deliver scalable, production-ready AI solutions using MLOps/LLMOps best practices.
• Contribute reusable frameworks and standards to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Applied AI / ML

Python

LLMs

RAG

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Product mindset

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree or PhD

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MLflow

Hugging Face

Job description

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and continually improve production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, ML, and related systems. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and technology leaders to translate high-value opportunities into AI-driven outcomes that deliver measurable business impact.

You will blend deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills.