Senior Agentic AI Engineer — Remote AI Orchestration Lead

Cognizant; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays/PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI engineer for a remote role focused on building conversational AI platforms. You will lead a distributed development team across onshore and offshore, shaping design and architecture to meet client requirements.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, integration of Bedrock and AWS tools, and collaboration with QA/UAT, security, and governance teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Production-grade generative AI apps built on Bedrock.
• Multi-agent orchestration and tool integration experience.
• Familiarity with RAG architectures (optional).
• Secure AI deployment and responsible AI controls knowledge.
• Prompt design, evaluation, grounding and latency optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and Offshore.
• Hands-on Dev, Design and architecture based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT teams.

Skills

AI Platform Dev

AWS Lex/Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

LLM Orchestration

Prompt Engineering

Agent Workflow

Voice/Chat Bot

Security & Compliance

Tools

Bedrock SDK

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

CloudWatch

AWS Strands

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior AI engineer for a remote role focused on building conversational AI platforms. You will lead a distributed development team across onshore and offshore, shaping design and architecture to meet client requirements.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, integration of Bedrock and AWS tools, and collaboration with QA/UAT, security, and governance teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI solutions.