Senior Lead: Production-Ready AI Scientist

Lumen; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 194,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Bonus structure

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions. You’ll partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate high-value opportunities into measurable AI-powered impact.

The role blends deep AI/ML expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery, requiring hands-on prototyping and scalable system delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in applied AI, ML, or data science with production deployments.
• Proven track record delivering AI solutions with measurable business impact.
• Deep expertise in ML, statistics, experimentation, and modern AI techniques.
• Hands-on with LLM, RAG, agentic, and ML solutions; production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-scale AI solutions end-to-end.
• Partner with business/product teams to define success metrics and validate value.
• Develop AI systems using ML, generative AI, retrieval, and agentic architectures.
• Define evaluation frameworks; improve quality, reliability, safety, and cost.
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions (MLOps/LLMOps).
• Contribute reusable frameworks and standards to accelerate AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on complex AI initiatives.

Skills

Applied AI

Machine learning

Data science

Production deployments

Experimentation

MLOps

LLMOps

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree in CS/AI

PhD in CS/AI

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Lumen is seeking a highly technical Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and improve production-scale AI solutions. You’ll partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to translate high-value opportunities into measurable AI-powered impact.

The role blends deep AI/ML expertise with software engineering, experimentation, and product delivery, requiring hands-on prototyping and scalable system delivery.