Lead, AI Agentic Systems & LLM Pipelines

Lenovo; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking a technical leader to head a team of engineers and scientists responsible for the full agentic stack—from LLM orchestration to production deployment. You will drive cross-functional programs, set technical direction, and deliver high-impact AI capabilities across Lenovo’s devices, edge, and cloud platforms.

The role combines hands-on ML with people leadership, requiring strong experience in LLMs, NLP, and agentic frameworks, along with modern ML tooling and CI/CD practices to

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of people management with 3 direct reports.
• 6 years of industry experience in ML or applied AI with strong LLM experience (prompting, fine-tuning, inference optimization).
• Master'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), tool-use patterns (function calling, MCP, structured outputs), and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
• Solid grasp of RAG architecture, embedding models including multimodal embeddings, and LLM evaluation methodology.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (python and at least one other programming language).
• Experience with Git, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers and scientists working on agentic workflows that work on-device, across-device, and on-cloud.
• Lead cross-functionally to set technical direction, prioritize projects, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Foster collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams and organizations.
• 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

Skills

People management

ML/Applied AI

LLM experience

NLP

Python

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Function calling

Agentic frameworks

RAG

Multimodal embeddings

CI/CD

Git

Agile

Education

Master's degree in computer science

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

MCP

Job description

Lenovo is seeking a technical leader to head a team of engineers and scientists responsible for the full agentic stack—from LLM orchestration to production deployment. You will drive cross-functional programs, set technical direction, and deliver high-impact AI capabilities across Lenovo’s devices, edge, and cloud platforms.

The role combines hands-on ML with people leadership, requiring strong experience in LLMs, NLP, and agentic frameworks, along with modern ML tooling and CI/CD practices to