Position Description:
At Lenovo, we Never Stand Still. Every day, every employee at Lenovo is focused on moving forward, rejecting traditional limits, and always seeking a better way.
Lenovo is expanding its ThinkReality core engineering team and looking to hire Sr. Engineering Manager for the AR Platform. In this role you’ll be managing engineering scrum teams that builds the backend cloud services and preloaded apps. You’ll be supported by respective engineering leads, project managers, and scrum masters. You’ll work alongside product managers, engineers, researchers and cross-functional stakeholders. You’ll be leading, and help grow, a world class team of developers, Android OS, and Cloud Engineers. This team will be focused on building enterprise-grade applications and core platform services for commercially available Augmented Reality devices.
The project and role are critical to transforming Lenovo from a preferred hardware supplier to a Solution-centric, innovation driven strategic partner.
Responsibilities:
•As the Sr. Engineering Manager, AR Platform, you will be responsible for guiding agile software development teams and managing projects from the conceptual stages through the development cycle.
•You will ensure that the development process, architecture and standards are followed. You will also be responsible for the team’s code quality, delivery schedule, and cost of the project. The focus of this role is more on technical management with deep understanding of the AR software stack, there is also an emphasis on mentoring project staff and helping with their professional development.
•Manage software development teams working on Unity Engine, Android (AOSP) and Cloud services supporting the AR applications; maximizing productivity, efficiency, and engagement while fostering and promoting opportunities for cross-team collaboration with Product Strategy and Product Assurance teams.
•Foster a high performing Agile based culture of trust, teamwork, empowerment, accountability, responsiveness, and communication. Set boundaries, success criteria, and measure progress. Suggest success patterns and call out anti-patterns.
•Minimize roadblocks and maximize opportunities to keep all members of the teams productive, engaged, and fulfilled in their roles.
•You will regularly discuss short- and long-term architectural objectives and occasionally advise on solutions approach, where applicable.
•Be able to build trust, encourage an attitude of proactive responsibility and a sense of ownership towards the tasks and projects at hand.
Position Requirements:
--- Basic Qualifications ---
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
•Prior experience owning end-to-end product delivery and managing/leading a diverse software engineering team.
•5+ years professional experience as an engineer including hands-on technical team management.
•Experience with low-level graphics APIs (Metal, OpenGL, DirectX).
•Experience developing AR/VR applications.
•Detailed understanding of the OS, graphics, networking, and other sub-systems.
•Experience shipping products requiring stringent runtime performance practices, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games.
•Experience working across disciplines to drive solutions.
