AI Engineer, RAG & Azure Orchestration

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade generative AI systems on Microsoft Azure. You will own end-to-end RAG solutions from data ingestion to deployed services and expose agentic workflows and APIs for user access.

You will develop orchestration workflows, integrate LLMs like Azure OpenAI, and optimize prompts for accuracy, performance, and cost, while ensuring observability and reliability in production environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python experience for backend services and automation.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, and vector search.
• Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, JSON, and Git.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end RAG pipelines: data ingestion, embedding generation, vector database management, and retrieval optimization.
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Skills

Python

LangChain

LangGraph

RAG

embeddings

vector search

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

REST APIs

JSON

Git

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Docker

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade generative AI systems on Microsoft Azure. You will own end-to-end RAG solutions from data ingestion to deployed services and expose agentic workflows and APIs for user access.

You will develop orchestration workflows, integrate LLMs like Azure OpenAI, and optimize prompts for accuracy, performance, and cost, while ensuring observability and reliability in production environments.