OS System Design Manager

Lenovo is building the next generation of intelligent device experiences powered by Qira, our crossdevice Personal AI platform. As part of this transformation, we are hiring an OS System Design Manager to lead the architecture and system design of core OSlevel components spanning Linux, Android, Windows, and RTOSbased platforms.

This role focuses on designing and integrating HAL, middleware, system services, and OSlevel abstractions that enable consistent, scalable, and secure experiences across Lenovo and Motorola devices. You will provide technical leadership, drive systemlevel innovation, and guide a highly skilled engineering team responsible for delivering foundational system components.

Location: The preferred working locations are Chicago, IL or San Jose, CA.

What You'll Do

• Lead system architecture and design across multiOS environments (Linux, Android, Windows, RTOS), focusing on HAL and middleware layers.
• Define and evolve OSlevel abstractions, system services, and frameworkfacing interfaces that deliver consistent capabilities across diverse device platforms.
• Drive integration of system components with vendor HALs, siliconspecific interfaces, and lowlevel drivers across multiple operating systems.
• Collaborate with AI, product, firmware, hardware, and platform teams to ensure scalable and unified system designs.
• Deliver platform solutions that meet stringent performance, reliability, latency, and power goals across various hardware architectures.
• Oversee technical execution including design reviews, system bringup, debugging, and integration readiness for production platforms.
• Manage and grow a team of system engineers, fostering strong execution, technical depth, and platform expertise.
• Stay current with advances in OS architectures, HAL design patterns, system optimization approaches, and multiOS best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on engineering experience in OS level software, system design, HAL, or middleware development across Linux, Android, Windows, or RTOS platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
• 3+ years of peoplemanagement experience, leading platform or system engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of framework system service HAL driver interactions across multiple operating systems.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded and systemlevel development and familiarity with Java/Kotlin/C#/Rust as applicable to different OS environments.
• Proven experience delivering systemlevel components for consumergrade devices (phones, tablets, PCs, IoT, embedded).
• Deep understanding of OS fundamentals including process models, memory management, IPC, scheduling, performance, power optimization, and system security.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through system architecture decisions, crossplatform debugging, and productionquality delivery.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate product requirements into scalable multiOS system architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HAL design, middleware frameworks, and system services across diverse OS platforms.
• Master's Degree in Engineering is preferred.
• Background working with silicon vendors.
• Familiarity with AIenabled system features, sensor frameworks, dataflow optimization, or ondevice processing pipelines.
• Experience with updatable system components (Android APEX/Mainline, Linux modular packaging, Windows system modules).
• Strong problemsolving skills for crosslayer issues spanning frameworks, middleware, native daemons, HALs, and kernel interfaces.
• Passion for system design, OS architecture, and building clean, maintainable, and scalable system abstractions across heterogeneous platforms.