AI Release Engineering Lead - Chicago, IL

General Information

Req #

WD00098486

Career area:

Engineering

Country/Region:

United States of America

State:

Illinois

City:

Chicago

Date:

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Working time:

Full-time

Additional Locations :
* United States of America - Illinois - Chicago

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Description and Requirements

About Our Team

We are looking for a Release Engineering Lead with experience managing CI/CD systems, scaling automated build pipelines and handling cross-platform release packaging. This role will have heavy cross-functional collaboration with development, product, and quality teams to ensure timely delivery across Windows, Android and embedded platforms.

We recently introduced Qira, our new crossdevice Personal AI that works seamlessly across Lenovo and Motorola products. More information can be found here: [1]

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage release pipelines across Windows, Android, and embedded platforms.
• Coordinate build, packaging, signing, and deployment workflows to ensure consistent, repeatable releases.
• Oversee CI/CD automation, including continuous integration, daily builds, artifact generation, and release validation.
• Partner with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to define release criteria, timelines, and readiness checkpoints.
• Ensure proper versioning, branching, tagging, and artifact management across all release streams.
• Monitor build health, triage failures, and drive resolution of releaseblocking issues.
• Maintain release documentation, change logs, and compliance artifacts for audit and traceability.
• Support crossplatform productization, including installer creation, OTA packaging, and platformspecific delivery workflows.
• Improve release processes through automation, tooling enhancements, and workflow optimization.
• Coordinate release approvals, signoffs, and communication across global teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 10+yrs of Experience owning release pipelines across Windows, Android and embedded platforms.
• 8+yrs of Experience serving as a Release Engineering leader, owning release processes and impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+yrs of Experience managing CI/CD systems for enterprise deployments.
• 5+yrs of Experience productizing software for consumer devices.
• 2+yrs of Experience defining secure build pipelines, code-signing and compliance workflows.
• Proven background in cross-platform release engineering as an engineer.
• Experience with Jira and similar tools for release tracking and reporting.
• Experience automating release notes, changelog generation and release dashboards.
• Experience managing cross-functional communication across different levels of the organization.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes containerization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: operates with priority in mind.
• Ability to document, communicate, and escalate issues in a timely way.
• Cultural Competency working across Chinese, Desi, American, European, and South American cultural contexts, ensuring messages are communicated with clarity and tact.
• Experience with Cursor or AI tools is a plus.
• Experience supporting development of LLM-based or Agentic AI systems a plus.
• Master's degree or higher in a relevant field is a plus.

The base salary budgeted range for this position is $200-225k. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission. This position operates on a hybrid schedule to our Chicago, IL location and is onsite 3 days per week.

Lenovo's various benefits can be found on

In compliance with Colorado's EPEWA, the expected application deadline for this position is August 14, 2025. 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.

Additional Locations :
* United States of America - Illinois - Chicago

* United States of America

* United States of America - Illinois

* United States of America - Illinois - Chicago