Remote LLM Engineer for Enterprise Gen AI & Production

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k)

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an LLM Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI capabilities. You will collaborate with data scientists, platform engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable generative AI solutions.

Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States, with a focus on scalable, production-ready LLM/SLM systems and responsible AI practices. Salary ranges reflect experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, ML Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying Generative AI, LLM, SLM, or Agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Experience building enterprise-grade AI applications utilizing LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, APIs, and cloud or on-premises platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, fine-tune, deploy, and optimize LLM and SLM solutions for enterprise-scale use cases.
• Develop and maintain supervised fine-tuning, model adaptation, and evaluation pipelines.
• Apply advanced model optimization techniques including LoRA, QLoRA, distillation, quantization, and model compression to improve performance and efficiency.
• Assess commercial, open-source, and internally hosted foundation models based on quality, cost, scalability, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support domain‑specific AI solutions using approved enterprise datasets and best practices for responsible AI.

Skills

Software Engineering

AI Engineering

ML Engineering

Python

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Tools

ML frameworks

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an LLM Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI capabilities. You will collaborate with data scientists, platform engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable generative AI solutions.

Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States, with a focus on scalable, production-ready LLM/SLM systems and responsible AI practices. Salary ranges reflect experience and qualifications.