Remote/Hybrid Frontier AI Engineer (Agentic)

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; 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 Technology Solutions Corporation, via the Cognizant Forward Frontier Engineer program, seeks an AI/Agentic engineer to join a cross-functional pod. You will work with engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners to build scalable, secure AI-enabled solutions and agentic workflows.

You will contribute to full-stack and backend development, API design, and cloud-native components while applying responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience building software applications with languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#.
• Foundational knowledge of software engineering principles: OOP, data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and design.
• Exposure to full-stack or backend development concepts, including APIs, databases, and cloud integration.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted tools to build, test, deploy, and enhance software applications, APIs, and scalable systems.
• Support AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions.
• Design, develop, integrate, and support full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, databases, and cloud components.
• Evaluate AI-generated outputs for quality, performance, and relevance to business needs.
• Contribute to knowledge systems, retrieval workflows, testing, deployment, monitoring, and documentation.
• Apply responsible AI principles and best practices while learning new tools.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, via the Cognizant Forward Frontier Engineer program, seeks an AI/Agentic engineer to join a cross-functional pod. You will work with engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners to build scalable, secure AI-enabled solutions and agentic workflows.

You will contribute to full-stack and backend development, API design, and cloud-native components while applying responsible AI practices.