System Lead engineer

Position Overview

Lenovo is seeking a highly motivated System Lead Engineer to join our Product Delivery Team supporting next-generation server and AI infrastructure solutions. This role will report directly to the hiring manager and serve as the technical lead responsible for driving server platforms from development through customer delivery.

The successful candidate will own end-to-end system execution, including system design, development, integration, debugging, validation, manufacturing readiness, deployment, and customer support. This individual will work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, operations, and customer teams to ensure products meet technical requirements, quality expectations, and delivery commitments.

This role requires a strong systems mindset, exceptional problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead complex server infrastructure programs throughout the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead system-level server platform development, integration, debugging, validation, and issue resolution activities.
• Own products through the complete lifecycle, including development, qualification, manufacturing readiness, customer delivery, and deployment.
• Drive execution and coordination across hardware, firmware, software, validation, operations, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.
• Serve as the primary technical lead for system-level design decisions, problem solving, and product execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities to ensure products meet technical requirements, quality standards, customer expectations, and delivery schedules.
• Work directly with customers to understand requirements, review feedback, resolve technical issues, and support successful deployments.
• Partner closely with manufacturing teams to resolve production issues, improve product readiness, and ensure successful customer shipments.
• Lead root cause analysis and system-level debugging for complex hardware and infrastructure-related issues.
• Drive program execution and milestone tracking to ensure on-time product delivery.
• Support new product introductions, customer escalations, and post-release technical support as needed.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver innovative server and AI infrastructure solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in system engineering, server platforms, datacenter infrastructure, or related hardware environments (10+ years preferred).
• Strong experience with system-level design, integration, debugging, validation, and problem resolution.
• Proven experience owning server platform development through the complete product lifecycle.
• Extensive experience with server hardware, enterprise systems, datacenter infrastructure, or platform engineering environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical activities across multiple engineering and operational organizations.
• Experience coordinating hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong customer-facing experience, including requirements gathering, technical discussions, issue resolution, and deployment support.
• Experience supporting products from development through manufacturing, delivery, and customer implementation.
• Experience working with manufacturing and operations teams to resolve production and deployment challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong project ownership, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GPU-based server platforms and AI infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with NVIDIA GPU technologies, GPU integration, validation, debugging, performance optimization, or deployment support.
• Experience supporting AI server platforms, accelerated computing solutions, or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience with AI clusters, rack-scale systems, multi-rack deployments, or large-scale datacenter solutions.
• Experience designing, validating, deploying, or supporting cluster-level infrastructure solutions beyond individual server platforms.
• Experience supporting customer deployments, field implementations, solution delivery, or post-deployment infrastructure support.
• Familiarity with hyperscale datacenter environments, cloud infrastructure, AI workloads, or enterprise-scale server deployments.
• Experience with system integration, platform qualification, and infrastructure deployment at scale.

**This is a hybrid role based in Morrisville, NC, requiring three days in office and allowing two days remote each week.