Staff AI Researcher

Job description

General Information

Req #
WD00105191

Career area:
Research/Development

Country/Region:
Saudi Arabia

State:
Riyadh

City:
Riyadh

Date:
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Working time:
Full-time

Additional Locations: * Saudi Arabia

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.
Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Description and Requirements

Join Lenovo's Group CTO KSA R&D Center as an AI Research Scientist, where you'll help shape the next generation of intelligent systems across robotics, autonomous platforms, smart environments, and industrial AI. In this role, you will research, develop, and deploy advanced AI solutions spanning computer vision, multimodal AI, agentic architectures, and Edge AI, transforming innovative ideas into scalable, real-world technologies that power the future of intelligent automation.

What You Will Do

• Research, develop, and optimize AI, machine learning, computer vision, and agentic AI solutions for real-world applications.
• Design perception systems including object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, and recognition.
• Build AI capabilities for robotics and autonomous systems, including localization, sensor fusion, navigation, prediction, and decision-making.
• Develop and integrate LLMs, VLMs, multimodal models, and AI agents to enable intelligent reasoning and human-machine interaction.
• Deploy and optimize AI models across edge and cloud environments, balancing performance, scalability, latency, and cost.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and foundation models, creating prototypes, benchmarks, and performance metrics.
• Collaborate with global research, engineering, and product teams to transform research into production-ready solutions, patents, and intellectual property.

Who You Are

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning, computer vision, or agentic AI solutions from research through production.
• Strong expertise in computer vision techniques, including detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, and sensor fusion.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, and modern AI/ML development frameworks.
• Experience working with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal AI, foundation models, and autonomous AI systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in C++ and AI deployment on edge or cloud platforms.

What We Can Offer You

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, robotics, and intelligent systems with global impact.
• A collaborative R&D environment focused on innovation, research excellence, and emerging technologies.
• Career growth opportunities through advanced research, patent creation, and participation in Lenovo's global AI ecosystem.

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: * Saudi Arabia

* Saudi Arabia

AI PROCESSING NOTICE
We use AI-based tools to support some of our processes (e.g. online interviews recordings and transcripts) in order to achieve better efficiency, accuracy and for our documentation purposes. AI can make mistakes, but we always make sure that the outputs are manually reviewed by a human. You can always opt-out or contact us in case of any question.

Preferred candidate

Years of experience

No experience required

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma