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Lenovo

AI System Lead Engineer

$168K–$258K

Chicago, Illinois · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Experience
8+ years of professional software engineering; 2+ years leading multi-engineer delivery of a product system from design through launch.

About the job

Leads the architecture and delivery of Qira’s cross-device AI systems, defining how they understand context, assist users, preserve user control, and ship reliably across platforms.

What you'll do

  • Own system architecture, roadmap, technical standards, and shippable requirements for Ambient Intelligence or Device and Application Intelligence.
  • Lead cross-team engineering delivery, architecture and security reviews, and decisions on interfaces, trust boundaries, reliability, privacy, and launch readiness.
  • Partner with product, design, security, and AI teams to create coherent experiences across devices and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience and 2+ years leading multi-engineer product-system delivery from design through launch.
  • Experience designing AI-powered product experiences and defining architecture and requirements across subsystems.
  • Cross-platform systems experience with a shared core and per-OS hosts; deep systems experience in at least two of Rust, Kotlin/Android, Windows native, or C/C++.
  • Experience with privacy-by-design, API/ABI boundaries between native code and application hosts, and delivery involving multiple dependent teams.

Nice to have

  • End-to-end AI experience design, on-device or edge ML integration, or background/always-on workloads.
  • Observability, remote configuration and kill-switch patterns, consumer device shipping, clear technical writing, or secure coding and threat-aware design.

Pay

168,100–257,715 USD annual compensation range; base salary status not specified

Tools

Rust, Kotlin/Android, Windows native, C/C++

AI focus

Architects cross-device personal AI experiences, including contextual and proactive behavior, user control, on-device or edge ML integration, and privacy-aware assistance or automation.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)