Remote Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Lead and Architect

Cognizant; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; 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 seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead remote, USA-based development of advanced AI agents and architectures for onshore and offshore teams. You will contribute hands-on development and system design aligned to client needs.

Responsibilities include guiding QA/UAT, crafting end-to-end agent workflows, and ensuring secure, scalable AI deployments using AWS Bedrock, Lex, and related services.

Qualifications

• Conversational AI & Agentic AI platforms required.
• Proficiency with AWS Lex or other deterministic bot tech.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
• Knowledge of LLM orchestration, tool calling and agent workflows.
• Experience with secure AI deployment patterns and cloud-native architectures.
• AWS certifications and multi-agent orchestration experience preferred.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI platforms

Agentic AI platforms

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

Conversation design

NLU concepts

Tools

AWS Lex

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead remote, USA-based development of advanced AI agents and architectures for onshore and offshore teams. You will contribute hands-on development and system design aligned to client needs.

Responsibilities include guiding QA/UAT, crafting end-to-end agent workflows, and ensuring secure, scalable AI deployments using AWS Bedrock, Lex, and related services.