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AI Engineering Director, LATC

Lenovo -
Edinburgh

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Job details

Full-time

Benefits

Life insurance
Car scheme

Qualifications

Doctoral degree
Computer Science
Master's degree
Distributed systems
APIs
Scalability
ADR
AI

Full job description

General Information

Req #

WD00100542

Career area:

Hardware Engineering

Country/Region:

United Kingdom

City:

Edinburgh

Date:

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Working time:

Full-time

Additional Locations:

United Kingdom - London - London

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).

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 www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Description and Requirements

Position Summary

Lenovo are building state-or-the-art platform capabilities that will be used in a broad range scenarios from personal and enterprise use cases. These components will help power future capabilities on devices including wearables to autonomous robots working in deep sea environments.

Lenovo don’t just do AI on the cloud, instead orchestrating and routing workloads intelligently across devices, laptops, and cloud environments — optimizing for cost, privacy, latency, and user experience.

This role is leading the engineering across our 2 LATC sites, Imperial College London and Edinburgh, where you will not only shape the architecture, roadmap, and execution of Lenovo’s AI strategy, but also play a founding leadership role in establishing and growing the sites. This unique opportunity blends high-impact product delivery with cutting-edge R&D and cross-disciplinary collaboration with world-class academic researchers.

You will ensure our platform becomes a global benchmark for intelligent AI deployment while helping build Lenovo as vibrant new hub for AI innovation in the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and lead the engineering delivery of key LATC components including Data, Context and Memory, Infrastructure (traditional and ML training), Observability, Operations and Run, Evaluation (Model and end to end stack) and the business facing AI portal (HIVE).
Collaborate closely with university researchers to accelerate algorithmic innovation, federated learning capabilities, and privacy-preserving AI deployment.
Direct and mentor a high-caliber engineering team that plans to grow from 30 – 150+ at controlled yet high pace, fostering a culture of technical excellence, rapid prototyping, and rigorous validation.
Drive integration of LATC capabilities into Lenovo’s consumer and enterprise products, in partnership with internal product and platform engineering teams.
Stay ahead of emerging trends in distributed AI, multi-agent orchestration, and edge-to-cloud integration, guiding Lenovo’s long-term technical direction.

Required Qualifications

8+ years in Data, AI/ML engineering, distributed systems, or orchestration platform development in a research or production environment. At least 3 years working on AI/ML workloads.
Scalability: Proven experience in scaling multi-model and multi-tenant inference systems to millions of daily requests.
Latency & Cost Optimization: Expertise in designing systems that balance throughput, latency, and cost per query.
Experimentation Platforms: Familiarity with A/B testing, reinforcement learning from feedback, and dynamic policy evaluation for routing decisions.
Tool & API Integration: Proficiency in integrating external APIs, tools, and databases into orchestration pipelines.
Observability: Ability to design monitoring systems for correctness, drift detection, and performance regressions across model families.
Strong leadership track record with the ability to translate research into deployed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience collaborating with academic research institutions or research-led industry programs.
Prior work in AI workload optimization for consumer electronics, IoT devices, or edge platforms.
Graduate degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, AI/ML, Distributed Systems, or related discipline.
Familiarity with federated learning, agent-based orchestration, and privacy-preserving AI frameworks.
Strong ability to operate across ambiguous and emerging technology landscapes, defining scalable frameworks for innovation.

What we offer:

Opportunities for career advancement and personal development
Access to a diverse range of training programs
Performance-based rewards that celebrate your achievements
Flexibility with a hybrid work model (3:2) that blends home and office life
Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
Life insurance

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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.

Additional Locations:

United Kingdom - London - London

United Kingdom

United Kingdom - London

United Kingdom - London - London

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