Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Remote Lead for AI Agents

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 100,000 - 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 seeks a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive advanced conversational AI initiatives from a remote U.S. location. You will lead a development team, design end-to-end AI architectures, and implement agentic workflows for enterprise clients.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS Bedrock, Lex, and Strands while aligning with security, reliability, and cost goals. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Must have conversational AI and agentic AI platform experience.
• Hands-on with AWS Lex or equivalent deterministic bot.
• Experience with Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
• Familiarity with AWS Strands SDK/framework and bot development.
• Proficiency in voice and chat bot development, and agent orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of LLM apps, tool calling, function calling, and prompts.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI Platforms

AWS Lex

Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice Bot development

Chat Bot development

Agentic AI orchestration

NLU concepts

LLM application development

Tool calling

Function calling

Agent workflows

Tools

AWS Lex

Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

IAM

API Gateway

CloudWatch

S3

DynamoDB

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive advanced conversational AI initiatives from a remote U.S. location. You will lead a development team, design end-to-end AI architectures, and implement agentic workflows for enterprise clients.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS Bedrock, Lex, and Strands while aligning with security, reliability, and cost goals. Equal opportunity employer.