Head of AI Architecture

Lenovo; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group (IDG) AI Ecosystem Team seeks a Head of AI Architecture & Innovation to define and deliver the architecture for Lenovo’s next generation AI ecosystem. The role spans cross-device runtimes, hybrid AI execution, orchestration, model runtimes, and platform services.

You will drive design standards for release pipelines, ensure scalable, secure, observable and privacy‑conscious features, mentor senior engineers, and align multiple teams to keep features shipping on

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering and architecture delivering large-scale systems.
• Experience with the full AI stack: surfaces, orchestration, memory, perception, model runtimes.
• Proven track record shipping AI-driven or distributed software at scale.
• Experience architecting cross-device runtimes (Windows + Android) with cloud integration.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across full software development and delivery cycle for AI experiences.
• Ensure features are scalable, secure, observable, and privacy-conscious.
• Guide integration of hybrid model execution across local devices and cloud.
• Define release engineering standards, pipelines, governance, and rollback mechanisms.
• Drive cross-team architectural alignment and pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Mentor senior engineers and ICs across the org.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

AI software engineering

Cross-device runtimes

Tools

Azure

Windows

Android

Job description

General Information

• Req # 100017441
• Career area: Artificial Intelligence
• Country/Region: United States of America
• State: North Carolina
• City: Morrisville
• Date: Friday, July 31, 2026
• Additional Locations: United States of America

Why Work at 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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Description and Requirements

About Our Team

Lenovo's Intelligent Devices Group (IDG) AI Ecosystem Team is seeking a Head of AI Architecture & Innovation to define and deliver the architecture of Lenovo's next-generation AI ecosystem.

We recently introduced Qira, our new crossdevice Personal AI that works seamlessly across Lenovo and Motorola products. More information can be found here: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-unveils-lenovo-and-motorola-qira/

What You’ll Do

• Own the architecture across the full software development and delivery cycle of AI experiences, spanning cross-device runtimes, hybrid AI execution, orchestration and knowledge frameworks, model runtimes and tuning, platform services, observability, security and Infosec compliance, release and OTA rollouts, partner enablement, and incubation.
• Ensure Lenovo's AI features are designed for delivery at scale: performant, secure, reliable, observable, and privacy-conscious across millions of devices.
• Guide integration of hybrid model execution across local devices and cloud, with routing, fallback, and policy enforcement.
• Define standards for release engineering, pipelines, governance, and rollback mechanisms.
• Drive cross-team architectural alignment, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep features shippable.
• Partner with inter-department Infrastructure and Infosec teams to remove bottlenecks and ensure compliance.
• Mentor senior engineers and ICs, raising technical depth and execution focus across the org.
• Ensure the architecture is future-proof and extensible, enabling SDKs, 3P agent integrations, and experimental innovation.

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering and architecture experience delivering large-scale, production-grade systems
• Experience with the full AI stack: experience surfaces, agentic orchestration, knowledge and memory systems, perception, model runtimes, evaluation, and infrastructure.
• Proven track record of shipping AI-driven or distributed software systems at scale.
• Experience architecting cross-device runtimes (Windows + Android) with cloud integration.
• Proven expertise in delivering software with OTA rollouts and preload governance at global scale.
• Expertise in designing complex distributed systems and cloud-native platforms, with broad knowledge across cloud providers (infrastructure, APIs, observability, and deployment).

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem and Azure cloud including architecture, services, and enterprise-scale integration.
• Strong understanding of hybrid AI architectures, including local and cloud inference, model orchestration, and multimodal runtimes.
• Experience guiding globally distributed engineering organizations in agile or scaled agile (SAFe) environments.
• Recognized as a pragmatic software architect who enables engineering teams to deliver, not just design.

The base salary budgeted range for this position is $230K - $300K. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission.

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