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Software Engineer (Android)

General Information

Req #

WD00088680

Career area:

Hardware Engineering

Country/Region:

United States of America

State:

North Carolina

City:

Morrisville

Date:

Friday, September 26, 2025

Working time:

Full-time

**Additional Locations** :

* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville

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$69 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 ourStoryHub (https://news.lenovo.com/) .

The Lenovo AI Technology Center (LATC)—Lenovo’s global AI Center of Excellence—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 (ThinkPad, 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.

Description and Requirements

Lenovo is seeking an experiencedSoftware Engineerto lead the integration and implementation ofSmall Language Model (SLM) inferencing for our next-generation AI systems onto Android devices. If you are passionate about making Smarter TechnologyForAll, come help us realize our Hybrid AI vision!

Responsibilities:

+ Design, implement, andmaintaincore agent runtimes responsible for:

+ Dynamic model loading and lifecycle management on Android devices

+ Scheduling, prioritization, and queuing of model inference requests

+ Information retrieval, data preprocessing, and context preparation pipelines

+ Developing system integrations to support interoperability between Android applications, services, and AI runtime components

+ Implementing security and privacy controls, including process isolation, app sandboxing, audit logging, and compliance with enterprise-grade mobile security standards

+ Optimizingruntime performance for latency, throughput, and memory footprint across heterogeneous compute platforms (CPU, GPU, NPU/DSP) and across various vendor AI runtimes (e.g., Qualcomm AI Engine, MediaTekEdgeAI)

+ Embedding safety and interpretability features into the stack, including guardrails, telemetry, and explainability mechanisms

+ Contributing to platform reliability, including fault tolerance, error handling, and automated recovery strategies

+ Collaborating with cross-functional teams (AI researchers, product managers, QA, and DevOps) to deliver robust, production-ready solutions

+ Mentoring junior engineers byprovidingtechnical guidance, conducting code reviews, and supporting onboarding

+ Authoring technical documentation and best practices, contributing to internal knowledge bases, design proposals, and architecture reviews

Required Qualifications:

+ Expertisein **Android development** , including Android SDK, NDK, AIDL, and Binder IPC

+ Strong understanding of **Android application and system security** best practices (e.g., app sandboxing,SELinux, secure coding, permission models)

+ Strong programming skills in **Kotlin/Java** for Android application and service integration

+ Proficiency in **C/C++** for Android NDK/system-level development

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Familiarity with mobile AI runtimes such as ONNX, TensorFlow Lite, Qualcomm AI Engine, and MediaTek EdgeAI

+ Working knowledge of **Python and deep learning frameworks** such asPyTorch

+ Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in complex, multi-threaded environments

+ Experience with **GGML, GGUF, and llama.cpp** for local model inference

+ Experience with **Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)** or other cross-platform development frameworks

+ Contributions to **open-source AI runtimes, libraries, or Android utilities**

+ Background in **performance optimization, compiler toolchains, or low-level hardware acceleration**

+ Experience building **AI features for consumer mobile apps** at scale

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