Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Remote, Cloud-Native Orchestration

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead and contribute to cutting-edge AI systems. This remote-USA role requires hands-on development, architecture design, and end-to-end AI agent orchestration using Bedrock, Lambda, and Strands.

You will work with onshore/offshore teams, implement guardrails, and ensure secure, scalable AI agent operations across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Lex/Bedrock and agent platforms.
• Hands-on AWS services and secure AI deployment patterns.
• Production-grade Generative AI applications using Bedrock and agent orchestration.

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 orchestration

Prompt engineering

Security controls

Tools

AWS Lex

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice/Chat Bot development

Intent modeling

NLU concepts

Tool calling & function calling

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to lead and contribute to cutting-edge AI systems. This remote-USA role requires hands-on development, architecture design, and end-to-end AI agent orchestration using Bedrock, Lambda, and Strands.

You will work with onshore/offshore teams, implement guardrails, and ensure secure, scalable AI agent operations across enterprise environments.