Remote Frontier AI Engineer (Agentic & Cloud)

Cognizant; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Forward seeks a Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic) to build scalable, AI-enabled solutions with a cross-functional pod of engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners. The role blends modern software engineering, cloud development, and AI technologies across full-stack/backend work and APIs.

Expect to evaluate AI outputs, contribute to retrieval workflows, and adhere to responsible AI practices while learning new tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience building software applications through academic, internship, research, hackathon, or personal projects using one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#.
• Foundational knowledge of software engineering principles including object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and application design.
• Exposure to full-stack or backend development concepts, including APIs, databases, application architecture, and integration of front-end and back-end systems.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted and augmented development tools to build, test, debug, deploy, and enhance software applications, APIs, and scalable, secure systems.
• Support the development of AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions, including context and harness engineering.
• Design, develop, integrate, and support full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, databases, and cloud-native application components.
• Help evaluate AI-generated outputs for quality, accuracy, performance, and business relevance.
• Contribute to knowledge and context systems, retrieval workflows, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and operational support.
• Apply responsible AI principles and software engineering best practices while continuously learning new tools and technologies.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Containerization

Job description

Cognizant Forward seeks a Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic) to build scalable, AI-enabled solutions with a cross-functional pod of engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners. The role blends modern software engineering, cloud development, and AI technologies across full-stack/backend work and APIs.

Expect to evaluate AI outputs, contribute to retrieval workflows, and adhere to responsible AI practices while learning new tools.