Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist - Remote

Lumen Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 176,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, and deploy production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, and ML workloads. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable value.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery, delivering scalable, production-ready AI systems and mentoring peers across the organization.

Qualifications

• Seven plus years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, or data science, including production AI deployments.
• Strong track record delivering AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, agent-based architectures, and production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with business and product teams to identify opportunities and validate value via rapid experimentation.
• Develop advanced AI systems leveraging ML, generative AI, retrieval, predictive modeling, and agentic architectures.

Skills

Applied AI

Machine Learning

Python

LLMs

MLOps

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MLflow

Hugging Face

Job description

Lumen Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, and deploy production-scale AI solutions across agents, generative AI, and ML workloads. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable value.

The ideal candidate combines deep AI expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery, delivering scalable, production-ready AI systems and mentoring peers across the organization.