Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Remote & LLM Orchestration

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior developer lead to drive a Dev team across onshore and offshore, delivering design and architecture aligned with client requirements. You will actively participate in hands-on development and support QA/UAT efforts while shaping conversations and agent workflows.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience in Generative AI, AWS Bedrock, and multi-agent orchestration, with a focus on scalable, secure AI deployments and strong collaboration across teams in a remote-enabled

Qualifications

• AWS Lex or Any Other Deterministic Bot
• AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore
• AWS Strands SDK / Framework
• Voice Bot and Chat Bot development
• Agentic AI application development and orchestration
• Intent modeling, conversation design, prompt engineering, and NLU concepts
• LLM application development, tool calling, function calling, and agent workflows

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and Offshore
• Hands on Dev, Design and architecture based on the client requirement
• Support QA and UAT team

Skills

AWS Lex

Bedrock

AgentCore

Bot development

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

RAG architecture

Security controls

Tools

AWS Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior developer lead to drive a Dev team across onshore and offshore, delivering design and architecture aligned with client requirements. You will actively participate in hands-on development and support QA/UAT efforts while shaping conversations and agent workflows.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience in Generative AI, AWS Bedrock, and multi-agent orchestration, with a focus on scalable, secure AI deployments and strong collaboration across teams in a remote-enabled