Head of Core AI Engineering — Hybrid/Remote Leader

Lenovo; Morrisville; Remote; CAD 287,000 - 440,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is building Core Intelligence, a next-generation hybrid AI platform that spans Windows, Android, and cloud. As Head of Core Intelligence, you will lead the engineering teams responsible for the AI brain of the system — including agentic orchestration, reasoning, fused memory, RAG retrieval, perception models, and model optimization.

You will own the intelligence substrate that powers every AI experience Lenovo ships across millions of devices.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years leading AI/ML teams
• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks, agentic systems, LLM/SLM pipelines, RAG, embeddings, and memory architectures
• Experience building systems across device + cloud in hybrid or edge environments

Responsibilities

• 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
• Drive the 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 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
• Mentor senior ICs across perception, agentic systems, RAG, memory, and model optimization
• Collaborate with research, product, and design teams to bring new agent capabilities and multimodal experiences to life

Skills

AI/ML leadership

Orchestration frameworks

LLM/SLM pipelines

RAG systems

Memory architectures

Edge + cloud deployment

Mentoring senior ICs

Job description

Lenovo is building Core Intelligence, a next-generation hybrid AI platform that spans Windows, Android, and cloud. As Head of Core Intelligence, you will lead the engineering teams responsible for the AI brain of the system — including agentic orchestration, reasoning, fused memory, RAG retrieval, perception models, and model optimization.

You will own the intelligence substrate that powers every AI experience Lenovo ships across millions of devices.