Associate AI Engineer

General Information

Req #

WD

Career area:

Artificial Intelligence

Country/Region:

United States of America

State:

North Carolina

City:

Morrisville

Date:

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Working time:

Full-time

• United States of America
  - North Carolina
  - Morrisville

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).

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 , and read about the latest news via our Story Hub.

The Lenovo AI Technology Center (LATC), the Center of AI Excellence for Lenovo, is driving our transformation into an AI-first organization. We are assembling a world‑class team of researchers, engineers, and innovators to position Lenovo and its customers at the forefront of the generational shift toward AI. Lenovo is one of the world's leading computing companies, delivering products across the entire technology spectrum, spanning wearables, smartphones (Motorola), laptops (Think Pad, Yoga), PCs, workstations, servers, and services/solutions.

This unmatched breadth gives us a unique canvas for AI innovation, including the ability to rapidly deploy cutting‑edge foundation models and to enable flexible, hybrid‑cloud, and agentic computing across our full product portfolio. To this end, we are building the next wave of AI core technologies and platforms that leverage and evolve with the fast‑moving AI ecosystem, including novel model and agentic orchestration & collaboration across mobile, edge, and cloud resources.

This space is evolving fast and so are we. If you're ready to shape AI at a truly global scale, with products that touch every corner of life and work, there's no better time to join us.

Summary:

Lenovo is seeking a highly motivated Associate AI Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and exploration of our next‑generation AI systems. As an Associate AI Engineer, you will help build and scale the AI inference platform that powers Lenovo's personal AI assistant Qira, where you will work with cross‑functional teams contributing to the development of backend services, API endpoints, and inference workflows that enable seamless integration of foundation models into real‑world user experiences.

In this role, you will support the design and implementation of scalable AI services, develop and maintain APIs for model access and orchestration, and leverage agentic AI tooling and workflow frameworks to connect models with enterprise systems, tools, and data sources. You will help optimize inference performance, improve system reliability, and contribute to the infrastructure that enables Qira to deliver intelligent, responsive, and personalized AI experiences at scale.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge AI systems while collaborating with experienced engineers, researchers, and product teams to help advance Lenovo's Hybrid AI vision and make Smarter Technology for All.

• Build agentic AI workflows - Design and implement multi‑step AI agents that can plan, call tools/APIs, reason over intermediate results, and complete complex tasks end‑to‑end.
• Build AI inference services - Develop and maintain scalable backend services that power Qira's…