Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Lead & Build AI Agents

Cognizant; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a remote AI software engineer specializing in Conversational AI and agentic platforms. You will work on AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, and multi-agent orchestration while building production-grade AI applications.

Role involves designing architecture, integrating tools, and ensuring secure, scalable AI solutions for enterprise needs. Candidates with hands-on experience in LLM orchestration, retrieval augmented generation, and governance will stand out.

Qualifications

• Must have Conversational AI & Agentic AI Platforms (MUST).
• Strong AWS and Bedrock experience (MUST).
• Hands-on Generative AI application development (MUST).
• Experience with multi-agent orchestration and tool integration (MUST).
• Familiarity with RAG architectures and prompt engineering (Preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and Offshore.
• Hands on Dev, Design and architecture based on the client requirement.
• Support QA and UAT team.

Skills

Conversational AI platforms

AWS Lex

Bedrock & AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice/Chatbot development

Agentic AI orchestration

Intent modeling & NLU

LLM app development

Tool calling & function calling

Agent workflows

Tools

AWS Lambda

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a remote AI software engineer specializing in Conversational AI and agentic platforms. You will work on AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, and multi-agent orchestration while building production-grade AI applications.

Role involves designing architecture, integrating tools, and ensuring secure, scalable AI solutions for enterprise needs. Candidates with hands-on experience in LLM orchestration, retrieval augmented generation, and governance will stand out.