Remote Senior Agentic AI Engineer — AWS Bedrock

Cognizant; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a hands-on AI/Agent Engineer to lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore from a remote location. The role emphasizes design, architecture, and hands-on development aligned with client requirements and QA/UAT collaboration.

The ideal candidate will work with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands SDK to build production-grade AI apps, orchestrate multi-agent workflows, and ensure secure, scalable deployment. Minneapolis-area flexibility is noted.

Qualifications

• Experience in building production-grade Generative AI applications on AWS Bedrock.
• Experience to develop and orchestrate AI agents using Bedrock AgentCore and AWS Strands.
• Expertise in LLM orchestration, tool integrations, and multi-agent workflows.
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures is a plus.
• Ability to implement prompt engineering, grounding, and agent performance tuning.
• Experience securing enterprise AI agents with guardrails and data protection controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and Offshore, overseeing design and architecture.
• Hands-on development and implementation based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT teams throughout delivery.

Skills

Conversation design

Prompt engineering

LLM orchestration

Agent orchestration

Security controls

Tools

AWS Lambda

Amazon Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a hands-on AI/Agent Engineer to lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore from a remote location. The role emphasizes design, architecture, and hands-on development aligned with client requirements and QA/UAT collaboration.

The ideal candidate will work with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands SDK to build production-grade AI apps, orchestrate multi-agent workflows, and ensure secure, scalable deployment. Minneapolis-area flexibility is noted.