Senior Frontier AI Architect & Guardrail Leader

Cognizant

Norway

Hybrid

NOK 1,000,000 - 2,000,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Distinguished Frontier Engineer to help shape the future of enterprise AI. As the senior technical leader who designs enterprise-scale AI systems behind Cognizant's most complex client transformations, you will define guardrails, author specifications, and own the intellectual design of AI delivery at scale across domains and geographies.

Hybrid work is offered with 3 days per week in Norway offices.

Qualifications

12-20 years of enterprise AI architecture leadership experience.
Expertise in enterprise AI architecture and context-pipeline architecture at scale.
Strong background in guardrail specification and responsible-AI framework design.
Experience with ADLC delivery governance and cross-platform AI integration strategy.
Skills in frontier-model evaluation, red-teaming and AI quality design.

Responsibilities

Design AI-native enterprise architectures and define human-agent capability matrices for delivery programmes.
Author guardrail specifications and boundary documentation for agentic systems at enterprise scale.
Lead client architecture review workshops and produce context-pipeline blueprints.
Govern ADLC adoption across the portfolio and define standards for AI-generated code quality.
Architect responsible-AI frameworks, including bias detection, explainability and audit-trail design.