Senior Lead, Production AI Solutions

Lumen; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 176,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Lumen is actively seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design and deploy production‑scale AI solutions across agents, generative models, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI value.

You’ll combine deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills to prototype, evaluate, and scale AI systems while guiding stakeholders through technical decisions.

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, and modern AI techniques.

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

ML Production

Python

LLMs

MLOps

Education

Master's degree or PhD

Tools

Hugging Face

TensorFlow

PyTorch

MLflow

Job description

Lumen is actively seeking a Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design and deploy production‑scale AI solutions across agents, generative models, ML, and more. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate opportunities into measurable AI value.

You’ll combine deep AI expertise with strong software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery skills to prototype, evaluate, and scale AI systems while guiding stakeholders through technical decisions.