Remote Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Lead Gen AI

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); 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

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead the development of production-grade AI applications using AWS Bedrock and AgentCore. You will design, implement, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows while ensuring secure, scalable deployment of generative AI solutions.

Role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and collaboration with onshore and offshore teams to meet client requirements and quality targets. Strong emphasis on governance and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade Generative AI applications on AWS Bedrock.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

Secure AI deployment

Observability

Cost optimization

AI governance

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice/Chat bot development

Tool calling & function calling

RAG architectures

GitHub Copilot style tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead the development of production-grade AI applications using AWS Bedrock and AgentCore. You will design, implement, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows while ensuring secure, scalable deployment of generative AI solutions.

Role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and collaboration with onshore and offshore teams to meet client requirements and quality targets. Strong emphasis on governance and observability.