Lenovo Hiring! Full Time AI Research Engineer in Central Region (Singapore) - Ricebowl

• Singapore - Central Singapore - Singapore

• Singapore - Central Singapore - SINGAPORE

• Lead technical research and experimentation in User World Models, predictive AI, knowledge graphs, and data representations for Personal AI.

• Formulate hypotheses, reproduce relevant research, build baselines and measure improvements in context understanding, prediction quality, grounding and reliability.

• Develop privacy-aware representations of user activities, relationships, preferences, goals, temporal context and cross-device state; account for uncertainty, consent and changing information.

• Explore graph-based, semantic and temporal memory, entity resolution, data fusion, retrieval and reasoning across permitted application and device data.

• Investigate predictive models that anticipate user needs or next actions, with clear confidence thresholds, evaluation and user control.

• Partner with prototype and systems engineers to validate ideas in realistic Qira experiences on Lenovo devices, including proactive and cross-device scenarios.

• Contribute to patents, technical disclosures and, where appropriate, external research publications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, ML or a related technical field; PhD or equivalent research experience is a plus.

• 5+ years of relevant AI/ML experience, with strong evidence of hands-on model development or research engineering.

• Deep experience with modern LLM/SLM or multimodal AI systems and frameworks.

• Experience in one or more of user modeling, personalization, predictive modeling, knowledge graphs, information retrieval, LLMs or contextual reasoning.

• Strong Python and software engineering skills; comfortable taking ideas from experiment to working code.

• Ability to reason about model quality, latency, cost, reliability, privacy and real-world constraints.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with temporal/heterogeneous knowledge graphs, graph ML, entity linking, probabilistic reasoning or causal/predictive modeling.

• Experience with multimodal context, memory systems, privacy-preserving learning or cross-device data integration.

• Experience with multimodal foundation models, VLMs, speech/audio or vision-language systems.

• Publication, patent or open-source contributions in AI/ML.

Success Measures

• Deliver reproducible research experiments and working prototypes for User World Models, Predictive AI and Knowledge Graph/Data priorities.

• Demonstrate measurable improvements in contextual understanding, prediction usefulness, grounding, reliability or privacy-aware personalization.

• Demonstrate a clear path from promising experiments into advanced development or product adoption.

Key Partnerships

Works closely with the Lead Scientist/Research leadership, AI Systems, Prototype Engineering and global Qira Product/Engineering teams.

• Singapore - Central Singapore - Singapore

• Singapore - Central Singapore - SINGAPORE