Lead / Principal AI Quality Engineer - San Jose & Chicago

About Our Team

We are looking for an Senior Quality Enginee r with solid experience testing mobile, device, or cloud systems. This role focuses on writing tests, maintaining automation, validating features, and identifying issues early. You will work closely with developers, product teams, and senior QEs to ensure strong test coverage and quality across Qira.

We recently introduced Qira, our new cross-device Personal AI that works seamlessly across Lenovo and Motorola products. More information can be found here: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-unveils-lenovo-and-motorola-qira/

Location: San Jose, CA OR Chicago, IL, Hybrid (3 days onsite and 2 days remote)

What You'll Do

• Write and execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory tests.
• Test Qira features across device, mobile, and cloud environments.
• Help maintain and expand automated test suites.
• Validate AI workflows, cross-device features, and user scenarios.
• Reproduce, document, and track defects through resolution.
• Analyze logs, crashes, and behaviors to support engineering teams.
• Provide quality status during testing cycles and release checkpoints.
• Drive model and agent evaluation pipelines, including accuracy, latency, grounding, hallucination detection, safety checks, and guardrail tests.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years in Quality Engineering or Software Testing.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Technical Discipline.
• Experience writing structured test cases and performing manual and automated tests.
• Basic automation experience (Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar).
• Experience testing Android (Mobile and Tablets), Windows (PC), or cross-device applications.
• Hands-on experience testing AI models, RAG/LLM systems, perception models, or agentic behaviors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing AI-driven features or task workflows.
• Familiarity with automated test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to performance or reliability testing.
• Familiarity with cloud systems, logs, and debugging tools.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

The base salary budgeted range for this position is $180K-210K. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission.

Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com.

In compliance with Colorado's EPEWA, the expected application deadline for this position is September 30, 2026. This applies to both external and internal candidates.

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.