Remote Senior Agentic AI Engineer: Conversational AI Lead

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AI agents in a fully remote role within the USA. You will design, implement, and orchestrate agentic AI solutions using AWS Bedrock and related services, while guiding offshore and onshore teams.

The role focuses on building production-grade generative AI applications, validating agent workflows, and ensuring secure deployment patterns.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Generative AI applications on Bedrock.
• Experience building and orchestrating AI agents.
• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and tool integrations.
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures (optional).
• Understanding of secure AI deployment and enterprise governance.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI platforms

Prompt engineering

LLM application development

Tool calling & function calling

NLP concepts

Multi-agent workflows

Agent orchestration

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

DynamoDB

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AI agents in a fully remote role within the USA. You will design, implement, and orchestrate agentic AI solutions using AWS Bedrock and related services, while guiding offshore and onshore teams.

The role focuses on building production-grade generative AI applications, validating agent workflows, and ensuring secure deployment patterns.