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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