Lead Agentic AI Engineer (Remote)

Cognizant; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI engineer to lead a development team working on conversational AI platforms. The role involves hands-on development, system design, and architecture aligned with client requirements, while supporting QA and UAT teams in a remote-capable setup.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS Bedrock, Strands, and multi-agent orchestration, plus a solid grasp of prompt engineering and secure deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Conversational AI & Agentic AI platforms must have hands-on experience.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands SDK.
• Developers should be skilled in bot development and orchestration of AI agents.
• Proficiency in LLM orchestration frameworks and prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of secure AI deployment patterns and cost-efficient operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and offshore.
• Hands-on Dev, design and architecture based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT teams.

Skills

Conversational AI

Agent orchestration

Prompt engineering

NLU concepts

LLM applications

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI engineer to lead a development team working on conversational AI platforms. The role involves hands-on development, system design, and architecture aligned with client requirements, while supporting QA and UAT teams in a remote-capable setup.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS Bedrock, Strands, and multi-agent orchestration, plus a solid grasp of prompt engineering and secure deployment practices.