Development Engineering Manager

Lenovo Group; Monterrey; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Development Engineering Manager to lead a hardware-focused team responsible for server, storage, rack-level, and system validation activities. This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical background, people development, and the ability to drive complex hardware and firmware issue resolution.

The position emphasizes collaboration with product development, architecture, program management, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams in a fast-paced

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of directly related engineering experience in hardware development, system integration, hardware validation, test engineering, reliability, or product engineering.
• 7+ years of formal people-management or technical-team leadership experience.
• Hands-on experience validating, integrating, troubleshooting, or debugging server, storage, or rack-level hardware.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary Development Engineering team with different levels of experience and technical expertise.
• Set clear expectations, objectives, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms.
• Balance project commitments with team capacity, employee development, and operational priorities.
• Review defect data, technical evidence, logs, failure signatures, and corrective action plans.

Conocimientos

Leadership

People management

Verbal communication

English proficiency

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Herramientas

Jira

Azure DevOps

Git

Descripción del empleo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com , and read about the latest news via our StoryHub .

Description and Requirements

Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, we are developing world-changing technologies that create a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society. By designing, engineering, and building the world’s most complete portfolio of smart devices and infrastructure, we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation - to create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the world. Join us in defining our world of tomorrow and creating smarter technology for all!

Lenovo's Cloud Service Provider understand the difference between CSP users and enterprise customers. As a strategic partner you can trust to deliver value for your CSP needs, we offer rapid innovation, quality products, aggressive pricing, quick delivery, unique time-to-bid cycles, and flexible service and support.

About Our Team

We are hiring a System Engineer to work in Lenovo's Cloud Service Provide Group (CSP). This is a fast-paced customer-centric organization that will adapt to changing market demands to serve customer needs. We're the only company with true end-to-end capabilities for even the most unique datacenter computing solution. Our CSP solutions can be designed, manufactured, tested, serviced, and deployed worldwide using only Lenovo teams and without any other JDM support required at any stage of the product lifecycle.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Development Engineering Manager to lead a technical engineering team responsible for server, storage, rack-level, and system validation activities.

This is a hands-on leadership position for a manager who can develop people, establish clear priorities, and drive operational execution while remaining technically engaged. The successful candidate will have previous engineering experience in server hardware, system integration, validation, debugging, and root cause analysis. They must be capable of reviewing technical plans, challenging engineering assumptions, and guiding teams through complex hardware and firmware issues.

The manager will work in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment supporting Cloud Service Provider products and solutions. The position requires close collaboration with product development, architecture, program management, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams.

Location:This position is based in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary Development Engineering team with different levels of experience and technical expertise.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, provide timely feedback, and maintain individual development plans for each team member.
• Set clear expectations, objectives, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms.
• Manage midyear and annual performance review processes with objective, well-documented feedback.
• Identify technical and leadership development opportunities for team members.
• Support succession planning, skills development, employee engagement, and retention.
• Build an inclusive environment where engineers can raise risks, challenge assumptions, and propose improvements.
• Address performance or behavioral concerns promptly, fairly, and consistently.
• Lead by example, demonstrating ownership, integrity, technical curiosity, and customer focus.
• Participate in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and workforce planning.
• Balance project commitments with team capacity, employee development, and operational priorities.

Technical Leadership

• Remain actively involved in technical reviews, problem solving, and critical issue resolution.
• Review product requirements, system specifications, design documents, test strategies, test plans, test cases, and validation reports.
• Provide technical direction for server, storage, rack-level, and system integration validation.
• Guide the team in developing New, Unique, Difficult, or Different test scenarios for complex products and customer configurations.
• Evaluate validation coverage across hardware, firmware, system performance, reliability, stability, and interoperability.
• Support engineering investigations involving PCIe, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, networking, BIOS, BMC, firmware, power, and thermal subsystems.
• Lead or facilitate structured root cause analysis for hardware, firmware, and system integration failures.
• Review defect data, technical evidence, logs, failure signatures, and corrective action plans.
• Ensure defects are documented, prioritized, assigned, tracked, and driven to appropriate closure.
• Escalate critical defects, schedule risks, resource constraints, and validation gaps to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Promote the use of engineering methods such as fault isolation, hypothesis-based debugging, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, and data-driven failure analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve test automation, validation efficiency, repeatability, and technical coverage.
• Maintain awareness of current and emerging server, storage, rack, cooling, and infrastructure technologies.
• Properly track and manage HW including engineering samples and productions samples
• Capable to understand an manage infra Lab including power, thermal, space, logistics, etc.
• Manage critical operational scenarios to keep safe products and lab infra.

Program and Operational Management

• Define and execute validation strategies for node, server, storage, rack, and scale-level products.
• Plan and control engineering schedules, resources, systems under test, lab capacity, materials, and test equipment.
• Align team deliverables with product milestones and customer commitments.
• Track execution through measurable indicators covering schedule, quality, defect closure, validation coverage, and resource utilization.
• Communicate status, technical risks, dependencies, and recovery plans to engineering and program stakeholders.
• Coordinate effectively across global and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure engineering deliverables are complete, accurate, traceable, and released on time.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, retrospectives, technical reviews, and standardized engineering practices.
• Support laboratory safety, equipment readiness, configuration control, and compliance with applicable operating procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

At least 7 years of directly related engineering experience in hardware development, system integration, hardware validation, test engineering, reliability, or product engineering.

At least 7 years of formal people-management or technical-team leadership experience, including responsibility for objectives, feedback, employee development, and performance management.

Previous hands-on experience validating, integrating, troubleshooting, or debugging server, storage, or rack-level hardware.

• CPU and system architecture
• DDR memory and RAM
• PCIe devices and topology
• GPU or accelerator technologies
• HDD, SSD, NVMe, and storage controllers
• BIOS, UEFI, BMC, and system firmware
• Networking adapters and switching
• Power, cooling, and thermal management

Experience creating or reviewing validation strategies, test plans, test cases, defect reports, and technical summaries.

Experience performing or leading failure analysis and root cause investigations.

Ability to translate technical findings into clear risks, priorities, and actions for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Professional working proficiency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers in a server, storage, data center, Cloud Service Provider, high-performance computing, or infrastructure product environment.
• Experience with complete product validation cycles, from early engineering stages through production readiness.
• Knowledge of server and rack stability, performance, stress, reliability, firmware, and interoperability validation.
• Experience with rack-level integration, scale testing, system configuration management, or data center infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of networking concepts, including Ethernet, routing, switching, and network interface configuration.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Scripting or automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with defect-management and engineering collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Git, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams and external customers.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.

Why Lenovo?

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

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