Gen AI Architect — Remote, Enterprise LLM Solutions

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 103,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Gen AI Architect (Agentic AI & LLM) for a remote US-based role. You will lead architecture and development of scalable Generative AI solutions, guiding teams across engineering, product, and business to create measurable value.

Expect to drive technical strategy, governance, and production deployment while mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and security across platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven success delivering AI/LLM-powered solutions, including agentic AI systems or RAG platforms.
• Deep expertise with Generative AI tech including OpenAI models, prompt engineering, vector databases, retrieval frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise-scale Generative AI applications.
• Design AI platform architectures covering model routing, prompt lifecycle, observability and governance.
• Lead end-to-end product delivery from architecture to deployment and operations.
• Mentor engineering teams and foster innovation and best practices.
• Establish evaluation frameworks with offline testing and business outcome measurement.

Skills

Generative AI

LLMs

Agentic AI

Full-stack engineering

Technical strategy

Mentor teams

System design

Education

Bachelor's / Master's / PhD in CS or related

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

AutoGen

Temporal

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Gen AI Architect (Agentic AI & LLM) for a remote US-based role. You will lead architecture and development of scalable Generative AI solutions, guiding teams across engineering, product, and business to create measurable value.

Expect to drive technical strategy, governance, and production deployment while mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and security across platforms.