Senior Agentic AI Engineer — LLMs, RAG, Remote

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 113,000 - 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 an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready AI applications.

You will build AI solutions, design scalable architectures with memory and state management, and deploy using MLOps/LLMOps practices, ensuring high quality and governance across enterprise data sources.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in AI/ML, Data Science, or Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding of ML algorithms, evaluation metrics, and validation techniques.
• Expertise in Agentic AI concepts, including LLMs, RAG, memory, reasoning, and prompt engineering.
• Hands-on experience building AI solutions using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Python and AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or LlamaIndex.
• Proven ability to evaluate AI systems, detect hallucinations, and measure model performance.
• Knowledge of scalable architecture, workflow orchestration, and AI governance.
• Experience deploying production AI solutions using MLOps/LLMOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Build AI solutions using LLMs, agents, and RAG frameworks.
• Design scalable AI architectures with workflow orchestration and memory management.
• Evaluate AI systems for quality, hallucinations, and agent effectiveness.
• Integrate enterprise data sources and develop intelligent AI workflows.
• Deploy and manage AI applications using MLOps/LLMOps practices.

Skills

AI/ML Engineering

Python

LLM & Agentic AI

LangChain

LLMOps

Tools

OpenAI API

Azure OpenAI

Anthropic

Gemini

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

LlamaIndex

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready AI applications.

You will build AI solutions, design scalable architectures with memory and state management, and deploy using MLOps/LLMOps practices, ensuring high quality and governance across enterprise data sources.