Sr. Research Lead - Agentic AI Security Research

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Lenovo Digital Trust Lab is hiring a Research Manager to lead and grow the team building AI-powered security agents. You will own the team’s mission, people, and delivery — hiring and developing engineers and researchers, setting the research agenda, and partnering with technical leadership to turn ambitious security problems into shipped, production-grade agents. You set the conditions for the team to do its best work and are accountable for the impact, quality, and pace of what it delivers.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and lead the team — hire, develop, and retain engineers and researchers; set clear goals, growth paths, and performance expectations

• Own the team’s roadmap and delivery — translate org priorities into a focused research and engineering agenda, ensuring agents ship to production with quality and at a healthy pace

• Partner with Staff and senior engineers on technical direction — support architectural and evaluation decisions while owning execution, prioritization, and headcount

• Create the conditions for great work — remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and protect the team’s focus and momentum

• Set the bar for research and engineering rigor — drive evaluation discipline, safety, reliability, and reproducibility across the team’s agents

• Partner with detection, AppSec, IR, and platform leadership to identify high-leverage opportunities and align on priorities

• Represent the team to senior leadership and stakeholders — communicate strategy, progress, risks, and resourcing needs clearly

• Stay close to the field — track frontier model releases and emerging techniques, and translate what is relevant into concrete bets

Requirements

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (advanced degree is a plus)

• 4+ years managing engineers or researchers, or extensive tech-lead experience with clear readiness to step into people management, including scaling teams and building hiring pipelines

• 4+ years of software development experience, with a track record of delivering production systems or research outcomes in a team setting

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to set direction and drive alignment across teams

• Solid foundations in Security Engineering — vulnerability research and exploitation, threat modeling, and security best practices across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS environments, including mapping findings to real-world risk and remediation

• Working knowledge of AI / Agent Engineering — autonomous agents, frontier reasoning models, and integrating them with offensive/defensive tools in production, including AI-powered coding/agent workflows

• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, or similar), prompting, retrieval (RAG), and context/grounding techniques, including agentic tooling ecosystems (e.g., MCP, memory systems, skills)

• Experience with evaluation and harness engineering for non-deterministic systems (datasets, benchmarks, regression suites, observability), with a clear understanding of why evals are a first-class engineering discipline

What We Offer

• Health Disability Insurance

• Pension/ Retirement Plan

• Meal Vouchers

• Employee Referral Bonus

• Children of Lenovo Employees Scholarship Program

• Lenovo and Motorola Product Discounts

• Employee Assistance Program, e.g., for health, legal financial consultancy

• Internal E-learning Development Platform Available for Employees

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