Senior Agentic AI Engineer: Bedrock & Multi-Agent Lead (Remote)

Cognizant; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI/GenAI engineer to lead a distributed development team and drive architecture for enterprise AI solutions. You will design and implement Bot and Agent workflows using Bedrock, Lambda, and Strands, while coordinating with QA/UAT and client teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, system design, and secure AI deployments, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and governance across cloud-native platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Lex or deterministic bot platforms.
• AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore experience.
• Hands-on cloud infra skills across AWS services.
• Generative AI and agent orchestration know-how.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and NLU concepts.
• Experience with LLM tool calling and multi-agent workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS Lex

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands

Voice/Chat Bot

Agentic AI

NLU/Prompt engineering

LLM orchestration

Agent workflows

Tools

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI/GenAI engineer to lead a distributed development team and drive architecture for enterprise AI solutions. You will design and implement Bot and Agent workflows using Bedrock, Lambda, and Strands, while coordinating with QA/UAT and client teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, system design, and secure AI deployments, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and governance across cloud-native platforms.