AI Agent Engineer – Claude & LLM Toolkits

Cognizant; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking an AI Agent Engineer to develop and leverage AI agent technologies. The role requires fluency in both French and English, as collaboration with multilingual teams is essential. Located in Montreal, this hybrid position allows flexibility with working arrangements, supporting a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in AI agent development.
• Familiarity with Claude Code/Claude Agent SDK.
• Ability to stay updated on foundation models.

Responsibilities

• Build and leverage AI agent technologies.
• Collaborate with multilingual teams.
• Extend capabilities of existing coding agents.

Skills

AI agent development

Fluency in French

Fluency in English

Python

Bash

SAS

Git

Knowledge of coding agent paradigms

Experience with observability for LLM products

Job description

About Us:

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, redefining clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our outstanding industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

Title: AI Agent Engineer – Claude & LLM Toolkits

• Knowledge of Claude Code/Claude Agent SDK, some experience with another agent toolkit is probably also relevant.
• Have built and is used to leverage AI agent.
• Python, Bash, SAS, Git,
• Knowledge of best practices for working with coding agents, differences between different coding agent paradigms, how to extend them
• Understanding of building blocks of agents
• Experience with observability for LLM products
• Knowledge of latest foundation models, differences between them (i knows how to stay up to date!)

Language Requirement

This role requires fluency in both French and English, as collaboration with multilingual teams and documentation in both languages is essential.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client office in Toronto, ON. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

Note

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.