Remote Lead Agentic AI Engineer

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI/LLM engineer to lead a development team across onshore and offshore, designing and implementing Generative AI applications and agent orchestration on AWS Bedrock. You will work with Bedrock AgentCore and AWS Strands while ensuring secure, scalable deployment patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architecture design, and collaboration with QA/UAT teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions and governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade Generative AI apps on AWS Bedrock.
• Experience orchestrating AI agents using Bedrock AgentCore and AWS Strands.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and offshore.
• Hands-on Dev, design and architecture based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT teams.

Skills

Conversational AI platforms

Agentic AI concepts

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

Model evaluation

Responsible AI controls

Security for AI agents

Latency optimization

Observability

Multi-agent coordination

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI/LLM engineer to lead a development team across onshore and offshore, designing and implementing Generative AI applications and agent orchestration on AWS Bedrock. You will work with Bedrock AgentCore and AWS Strands while ensuring secure, scalable deployment patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architecture design, and collaboration with QA/UAT teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions and governance across the enterprise.