Senior Lead Applied AI Scientist
Lumen Technologies21 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$176k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, optimize, and deploy production-scale AI solutions from concept through ongoing improvement.
- Partner with business and product teams to identify opportunities, define success metrics, and validate value through experimentation.
- Develop machine learning, generative AI, retrieval, predictive modeling, LLM, RAG, and agentic solutions.
- Define evaluation frameworks and improve AI quality, reliability, safety, performance, and cost.
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions using MLOps and LLMOps practices.
- Create reusable frameworks, evaluation assets, and technical standards for enterprise AI adoption.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on complex cross-functional AI initiatives.
Requirements
- At least seven years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, or data science, including production AI deployments.
- Demonstrated success delivering AI solutions with 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.
- 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, or MLflow.
- Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, cloud AI platforms, APIs, and software engineering practices.
- Strong product mindset, problem-solving ability, and communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred: master's degree or PhD in computer science, AI, machine learning, statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- Preferred: experience building agent-based solutions, operating enterprise AI in regulated or security-sensitive environments, leading complex cross-functional initiatives, or contributing to research, patents, publications, or open source.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, voluntary lifestyle, and other wellbeing benefits.
- Additional bonus structure information is provided during the selection process.
- Remote work is indicated by the posting's #LI-REMOTE designation.
- The role is available across multiple listed U.S. state-based pay locations.
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About Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies provides fiber-based network connectivity, internet, edge cloud, and managed security/IT services to enterprises, carriers, and government agencies. It operates an extensive global metro and long-haul fiber network and offers SD-WAN, wavelength, CDN, voice, and cloud on-ramps sold through contracted subscriptions. Headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, Lumen is a public company on the NYSE (LUMN) and rebranded from CenturyLink in 2020.