Lead Generative AI Engineer - Agentic AI & LLM Orchestration

Cognizant; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/GenAI Platform Engineer to lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore, shaping architecture and hands-on delivery for Conversational AI platforms. You will collaborate with QA and UAT, design agent orchestration, and implement secure, scalable Bedrock-based AI solutions using AWS services, Strands, and AgentCore while ensuring governance and cost efficiency.

This remote role offers flexible working arrangements and opportunities to influence enterprise AI

Qualifications

• Conversational AI & Agentic AI platforms experience is required.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and AgentCore.
• Experience building voice and chat bots and orchestrating LLMs.

Responsibilities

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

Tools

AWS Lex

Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice Bot development

Agentic AI

Intent modeling

Prompt engineering

LLM orchestration

Tool integration

Agent workflows

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

AWS Lambda

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/GenAI Platform Engineer to lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore, shaping architecture and hands-on delivery for Conversational AI platforms. You will collaborate with QA and UAT, design agent orchestration, and implement secure, scalable Bedrock-based AI solutions using AWS services, Strands, and AgentCore while ensuring governance and cost efficiency.

This remote role offers flexible working arrangements and opportunities to influence enterprise AI