Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Remote & LLM Orchestration

Cognizant; Indianapolis (IN); 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

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive advanced AI agent solutions in a remote US-based environment. You will lead a cross-functional development team, architect AI-driven workflows, and hands-on build and integrate agentic systems for clients.

The role emphasizes Bot/LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, and secure deployment patterns within AWS Bedrock and related tools. Strong collaboration with QA/UAT is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with Conversational AI and Agentic AI platforms (MUST).
• Hands-on development of voice/chatbot solutions using AWS Bedrock and agent frameworks.
• Experience with LLM orchestration, tool calling, and multi-agent workflows.
• Knowledge of secure AI deployment patterns and governance.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI concepts

Prompt engineering

LLM orchestration

Conversation design

Experience with onshore/offshore teams

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Lex

AWS Strands SDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

S3, DynamoDB

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive advanced AI agent solutions in a remote US-based environment. You will lead a cross-functional development team, architect AI-driven workflows, and hands-on build and integrate agentic systems for clients.

The role emphasizes Bot/LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, and secure deployment patterns within AWS Bedrock and related tools. Strong collaboration with QA/UAT is required.