Lead Agentic AI Engineer - Remote USA

Cognizant

Dover (DE)

Remote

USD 100,000 - 130,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead a development team and drive end-to-end AI solutions for US clients. The role emphasizes hands-on design, architecture, and integration of agentic AI with AWS Bedrock and related services.

The candidate will oversee client requirements, ensure QA/UAT support, and advance secure, scalable AI deployments with a focus on governance and reliability.

Qualifications

Conversational AI and Agentic AI platforms are mandatory.
Hands-on development with AWS Bedrock and Lambda required.
Experience in LLM orchestration and multi-agent workflows.
Knowledge of secure AI deployments and governance.
Strong design, architecture, and prompt engineering skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI

Prompt engineering

NLU concepts

LLM orchestration

Architecture design

Team leadership

Onshore/Offshore coordination

Security & governance

Tools

AWS Lex

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK/Framework

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Bedrock AgentCore

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT/Cursor/Claude tools

Job description

The candidate will oversee client requirements, ensure QA/UAT support, and advance secure, scalable AI deployments with a focus on governance and reliability.

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