Advisory AI Engineer

Lenovo; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking a technical lead to own the full agentic stack—from LLM orchestration to production deployment. You will design and ship agentic pipelines, remember and reason over data, and integrate tools across multi-step tasks.

You will build evaluation frameworks for reliability and safety, maintain RAG systems and vector stores, and scale deployments in production. Collaboration with AI engineers, ML scientists, and product managers is essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of ML/AI industry experience with hands-on LLM experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, math, physics, or related field.
• Experience with NLP.
• Fluent in Python and modern ML stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM or equivalent).
• Proven experience with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom) and tool-use patterns.
• Solid grasp of RAG architecture, embeddings, and LLM evaluation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python plus another language).
• Experience with Git and CI/CD.
• Experience deploying ML models with Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship agentic LLM pipelines: multi-step reasoning, tool use, memory, and planning.
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent reliability and safety across tasks.
• Build and maintain RAG systems, vector stores, and external tool integrations.
• Deploy and scale agent systems in production; translate research into working systems.
• Be a technical lead, collaborating with AI engineers, ML scientists, and product managers.
• Keep abreast of AI/ML developments and apply cutting-edge methods.

Skills

ML experience

Python

NLP

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

Function calling

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

RAG architecture

Software engineering

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Physics

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Job Summary

Lenovo is seeking a technical lead who will own the full agentic stack – from LLM orchestration, tool use, memory, and production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship agentic LLM pipelines: multi-step reasoning, tool use, reflection loops, and long-horizon planning and memory
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent reliability and safety across different tasks.
• Build and maintain RAG systems, vector stores, and external tool integrations
• Deploy and scale agent systems in production; translate relevant research into working systems
• Be a technical lead, working closely with other AI engineers, ML scientists, and technical product managers to put pipelines in production
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in AI & ML, applying cutting‑edge research and methodologies to your work

Required Qualifications

• 6 years of industry experience in ML or applied AI with strong hands‑on LLM experience (prompting, fine‑tuning, inference optimization)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied math, physics, or a related field
• Experience with NLP
• Fluent in Python and the modern ML stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM or equivalent)
• Proven experience with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom) and tool‑use patterns (function calling, MCP, structured outputs)
• Solid grasp of RAG architecture, embedding models, and LLM evaluation methodology
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python and at least one other programming language)
• Experience with Git, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience deploying ML models using containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Preferred Requirements

• PhD or Master's preferred
• Experience with computer vision
• Experience with Agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban
• Rust experience for performance‑critical inference or runtime components
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences, both verbally and in writing

Benefits and Compensation

The base salary range budgeted for this position in Chicago is $200k – $250k. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission. Lenovo's various benefits can be found at https://www.lenovobenefits.com/enrolling-in-benefits/why-join-lenovo/.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.