Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist — Remote, Production AI

Lumen; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 185,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Job summary

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

You will combine deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, acting as a hands-on practitioner who prototypes,

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, or data science, including production deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, predictive analytics, and 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.
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, cloud AI platforms, APIs, and software engineering best practices.
• Strong product mindset 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

Production deployments

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLMOps

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

LLMOps platforms

MLOps

APIs

Job description

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

You will combine deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills, acting as a hands-on practitioner who prototypes,