Frontier AI Engineer (Agentic): Scale Secure AI

Cognizant; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

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

You will contribute to AI-enabled applications, evaluation of AI outputs, and knowledge systems, while applying responsible AI practices and continuously learning new tools and technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted and augmented development tools to build, test, debug, deploy, and enhance software solutions and scalable, secure systems.
• Support the development of AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions, including context and harness engineering.
• Help evaluate AI-generated outputs for quality, accuracy, performance, and business relevance.
• Contribute to knowledge and context systems, retrieval workflows, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and operational support.
• Apply responsible AI principles and engineering best practices while continuously learning new tools and technologies.

Skills

Python

R

MATLAB

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, Mathematics, or related technical discipline

Tools

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Git

Job description

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

You will contribute to AI-enabled applications, evaluation of AI outputs, and knowledge systems, while applying responsible AI practices and continuously learning new tools and technologies.