Senior Agentic AI Engineer – Remote (AWS Bedrock/LLM)

Cognizant; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive development of agentic AI and conversational AI solutions. You will lead a distributed team, design architectures, and hands-on implement components across Bedrock, Lambda, S3 and APIs for secure production systems.

The role demands hands-on expertise in LLM orchestration, tool integrations, prompt engineering, and guardrails to ensure scalable, compliant AI agents.

Qualifications

• Conversational AI platforms and agentic AI platforms are required.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
• Experience with LLM orchestration, tool integrations, and multi-agent workflows is essential.
• Knowledge of secure AI deployment patterns and cloud-native agent architectures is a plus.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures optional.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

NLU concepts

Team leadership

Tools

AWS Lex

Amazon Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive development of agentic AI and conversational AI solutions. You will lead a distributed team, design architectures, and hands-on implement components across Bedrock, Lambda, S3 and APIs for secure production systems.

The role demands hands-on expertise in LLM orchestration, tool integrations, prompt engineering, and guardrails to ensure scalable, compliant AI agents.