Remote AI Architect: Agentic Systems & LLMs

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures leveraging LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers. You will design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool usage, and establish reference architectures for cloud-native, scalable, secure AI applications.

Role involves integrating AI agents with enterprise systems, data platforms, ERP, CRM, APIs, and event-driven systems, collaborating with stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and GenAI, including LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and multi-agent architectures and agent frameworks.
• Strong programming skills in Python (primary) with hands-on experience across AI libraries.
• Experience architecting on cloud platforms, with Azure preferred (including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, and Databricks), as well as AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end Agentic AI architecture frameworks leveraging LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers.
• Design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool usage.
• Establish reference architectures for enterprise-grade AI applications that are cloud-native, scalable, and secure.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems, including data platforms, ERP, CRM, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to shape the technical direction.

Skills

AI/ML expertise

GenAI & LLMs

Python programming

Cloud architectures

Databricks/Snowflake/Synapse

REST APIs & microservices

DevOps & MLOps

Agent frameworks

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Kafka

Event Hub

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures leveraging LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers. You will design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool usage, and establish reference architectures for cloud-native, scalable, secure AI applications.

Role involves integrating AI agents with enterprise systems, data platforms, ERP, CRM, APIs, and event-driven systems, collaborating with stakeholders to