Native AI Engineer — Build AI-Native Apps & Intelligent Agents

Cognizant; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Native AI Developer to build and deploy AI-native applications, copilots, and intelligent agents, leveraging LLMs such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama.

You will design RAG pipelines, integrate with enterprise data sources and APIs, create prompts and multi-agent workflows, and optimize models for performance, accuracy, and cost, partnering with business and engineering teams to deliver AI-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Knowledge of RAG, vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search.
• Experience with AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
• Understanding of AI agent development and orchestration.
• Experience with REST APIs, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), and CI/CD processes.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI-native applications, copilots, and intelligent agents.
• Develop solutions using LLMs such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines with vector databases.
• Integrate AI applications with enterprise data sources, APIs, and business systems.
• Create prompts, workflows, and multi-agent solutions to automate business processes.
• Optimize AI models for performance, accuracy, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and engineering teams to deliver AI-driven solutions.

Skills

Python

Generative AI & LLMs

RAG pipelines

AI agent development

REST APIs

CI/CD processes

Cloud platforms knowledge

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Embeddings

Vector databases

Job description

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Native AI Developer to build and deploy AI-native applications, copilots, and intelligent agents, leveraging LLMs such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama.

You will design RAG pipelines, integrate with enterprise data sources and APIs, create prompts and multi-agent workflows, and optimize models for performance, accuracy, and cost, partnering with business and engineering teams to deliver AI-driven solutions.