Frontier AI Engineer: Cloud-Native GenAI Expert

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 69,000 - 123,000; 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 to design and deliver AI-enabled applications and cloud-native solutions. You will work across application development, APIs, cloud engineering, DevOps, databases, and AI architecture in a role that emphasizes Generative AI tooling and scalable cloud-native design.

You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to build modern solutions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with a focus on CI/CD, governance, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on Generative AI tooling.
• Strong polyglot development with Java and Spring Boot plus modern frontend tech such as Angular, React, Node.js, and/or Python.
• Strong experience designing, developing, and integrating APIs within modern distributed or cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on expertise with Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale, and grounding strategies, along with knowledge of knowledge graphs and ontology engineering.
• Experience designing or developing cloud-native solutions using AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Leverage Generative AI development tools to accelerate software development, testing, and cloud-platform changes.
• Develop and enhance scalable API and user interface solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, React, Node.js, and Python.
• Design and build cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including CI/CD pipelines and DevOps capabilities.

Skills

Generative AI tools experience

Polyglot development

Cloud-first mindset

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

React

Node.js

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

DevOps

APIs

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Frontier Engineer to design and deliver AI-enabled applications and cloud-native solutions. You will work across application development, APIs, cloud engineering, DevOps, databases, and AI architecture in a role that emphasizes Generative AI tooling and scalable cloud-native design.

You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to build modern solutions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with a focus on CI/CD, governance, and