Lead Agentic AI Engineer (Remote)

Cognizant; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer for remote work in the USA. You will lead a development team across onshore and offshore, perform hands-ons development, design and architecture to meet client requirements, and support QA/UAT activities.

The role emphasizes Conversational AI, Agentic AI platforms, LLM orchestration, and secure cloud deployment using AWS Bedrock and related services. Preferred candidates have extensive experience with AWS services (Bedrock, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB,

Qualifications

• Conversational AI and Agentic AI platforms knowledge required.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore and Strands SDK.
• Proficiency in building production-grade Generative AI applications.
• Experience with multi-agent orchestration and tool integrations.
• Knowledge of secure deployment patterns for enterprise AI.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI concepts

Prompt engineering

NLU / intent modeling

Conversations design

Multi-agent workflows

Security controls

Responsible AI

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Lex

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

DynamoDB

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer for remote work in the USA. You will lead a development team across onshore and offshore, perform hands-ons development, design and architecture to meet client requirements, and support QA/UAT activities.

The role emphasizes Conversational AI, Agentic AI platforms, LLM orchestration, and secure cloud deployment using AWS Bedrock and related services. Preferred candidates have extensive experience with AWS services (Bedrock, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB,