Frontier AI Engineer (Agentic) - Remote/Hybrid

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic) to help build scalable, secure AI-enabled solutions within the Cognizant Forward team. You will collaborate with engineers, architects, data scientists, and AI practitioners in a small, cross-functional pod.

Frontier Engineers combine modern software engineering, cloud development, and AI technologies to create scalable digital solutions, with emphasis on full-stack or backend development, APIs, databases, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C# in building software applications.
• Foundational knowledge of software engineering principles including OOP, data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and design.
• Exposure to full-stack or backend development concepts including APIs, databases, and architecture.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted and augmented development tools to build, test, deploy, and enhance software applications, APIs, and scalable systems.
• Support development of AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions.
• Design, develop, integrate, and support full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, databases, and cloud-native components.
• Help evaluate AI-generated outputs for quality, accuracy, performance, and business relevance.
• Contribute to knowledge and context systems, retrieval workflows, testing, deployment, monitoring, and documentation.
• Apply responsible AI principles and software engineering best practices while learning new tools and technologies.

Skills

Programming languages

APIs & backend

Cloud platforms

Database knowledge

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Containerization

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic) to help build scalable, secure AI-enabled solutions within the Cognizant Forward team. You will collaborate with engineers, architects, data scientists, and AI practitioners in a small, cross-functional pod.

Frontier Engineers combine modern software engineering, cloud development, and AI technologies to create scalable digital solutions, with emphasis on full-stack or backend development, APIs, databases, and