Hiring: Director, AI Engineering - REMOTE Company: Lenovo Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 07:41:00 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Android, LLM, RAG, Reinforcement Learning About the job Experience: •12+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years leading teams in AI/ML systems, agent platforms, search, recommendation, or applied ML infrastructure. •At least 5 years leading teams in AI/ML systems, agent platforms, search, recommendation, or applied ML infrastructure. Required Skills: •Build and lead the Core Intelligence organization, owning agentic systems, orchestration, routing, tool frameworks, RAG retrieval, memory, knowledge graph, and perception signals. •Architect the intelligence layer for hybrid AI: on-device inference, cloud fallback, multi-model routing, policy enforcement, and context grounding. •Strategically drive development of perception-based triggers, wake-word detection logic, screenshot and audio understanding, OCR/ASR pipelines. •Own the recommendation and next-action engines, working closely with Experience Engineering to deliver contextual, proactive AI. •Lead the optimization of small and medium models (SLMs): quantization, distillation, pruning, and device-specific tuning. •Partner closely with Platform Engineering, Cloud Platform, SRE Delivery, and Experience teams to ensure Core Intelligence is performant, reliable, and tightly integrated. •Define evaluation frameworks and quality gates for intelligence features such as retrieval accuracy, hallucination avoidance, model grounding, and agent reliability. •Set the technical direction for the intelligence roadmap, balancing innovation, prototyping, and production reliability. Qualifications: •Applied hands-on capability in orchestration frameworks, agentic systems, LLM/SLM pipelines, RAG systems, embeddings, and memory architectures. •Strong technical depth in at least one of: perception models (OCR/ASR/vision), retrieval systems, reinforcement learning, model optimization, distributed systems. •Demonstrated ability to lead senior ICs, set technical direction, and deliver complex AI systems at scale. •Strong collaboration skills across platform teams, cloud engineering, UX/experience engineering, and SRE organizations. •Demonstrated capacity to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and shape the engineering culture for a new AI platform. •The base salary budgeted range for this position is $220K - $320K. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission. •Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!