Remote Agentic AI Engineer — Lead & Build AI Agents

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a seasoned AI/GenAI engineer to lead a cross-functional development team on advanced conversational AI projects. You will architect and implement agent-based solutions using Bedrock and Strands, while coordinating with QA and UAT teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration across onshore and offshore teams, and adherence to enterprise security practices for responsible AI deployment.

Qualifications

• Must have Conversational AI/Agentic AI platforms experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and agent orchestration.
• Proven ability to build production-grade generative AI applications.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

Security controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

AWS Certifications (AI Practitioner/AI Engineer)

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Bedrock Strands SDK

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Cursor

Claude

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a seasoned AI/GenAI engineer to lead a cross-functional development team on advanced conversational AI projects. You will architect and implement agent-based solutions using Bedrock and Strands, while coordinating with QA and UAT teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration across onshore and offshore teams, and adherence to enterprise security practices for responsible AI deployment.