OEM Lab Manager: Custom Solutions & Tech Partnerships

Lenovo; North Carolina; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an OEM Lab Manager to lead a lab engineering team in Morrisville, NC, partnering with OEM customers and Lenovo product teams to tailor offerings and drive technical requirements. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with suppliers, and on-site execution within the North America OEM Lab network.

You will interface with manufacturing, ITC, QA, and bid teams while shaping innovative services and revenue opportunities through a strong technical direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/EE or related engineering field.
• 5+ years of experience in the PC or related industry.
• Past experience managing a technical lab team.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers.
• Ability to work in person at the OEM Engineering Lab in Morrisville, NC.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a lab engineering team to conduct customer-driven Proof of Concepts, customer test scenarios, and provide pre-sales customer support.
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams to create processes supporting customization efforts for OEM customers.
• Work with process control systems (e.g., Windchill, Factsheets, PCRs, Jira).
• Manage process execution and release methodologies within the manufacturing environment.
• Collaborate with local test engineers (TE), quality engineers (QE), manufacturing engineers (ME), ITC, and special bids teams.
• Define test automation processes and solutions for the lab engineering team.
• Define process flow for team duties and assign tasks.
• Customize and support of various Linux distributions.
• Architect new ideas for revenue generation through innovative engineering services solutions.
• Leverage technologies including Windows OS, Windows IoT, Linux distros, shell scripting, Java, Python, device drivers, BIOS customizations, and Linux kernel.
• Summarize and convey ideas and issues to upper management.
• Collaborate effectively on a WW team with members located in different parts of the world – across various time zones.

Skills

Lab management

Supplier management

On-site work

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

Windchill

Factsheets

Jira

Job description

Lenovo is seeking an OEM Lab Manager to lead a lab engineering team in Morrisville, NC, partnering with OEM customers and Lenovo product teams to tailor offerings and drive technical requirements. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with suppliers, and on-site execution within the North America OEM Lab network.

You will interface with manufacturing, ITC, QA, and bid teams while shaping innovative services and revenue opportunities through a strong technical direction.