Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Remote (US)

Cognizant; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + 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 drive the design, development and deployment of agentic AI solutions in a remote US-based role. You will lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore, architect solutions, and collaborate with QA/UAT to deliver scalable AI systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS Lex/Bedrock, Strands, and multi-agent workflows, plus a focus on prompt engineering, evaluation and responsible AI controls. Remote within the USA.

Qualifications

• Experience with Conversational AI and Agentic AI platforms.
• Hands-on AWS Lex or deterministic bot development.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
• Knowledge of AWS Strands SDK/Framework.
• Voice and chat bot development experience.
• Agentic AI application development and orchestration.
• Intent modeling, prompt engineering, and NLU concepts.
• LLM application development, tool calling, function calling and agent workflows.
• Cloud infra knowledge: Bedrock, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Experience with secure AI deployment and guardrails is a plus.

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

Deterministic Bot

Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

Strands SDK

Voice Bot

Chat Bot

Agentic AI Orchestration

Intent Modeling

NLU Concepts

LLM App Development

Tool Calling

Function Calling

Agent Workflows

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

S3

DynamoDB

Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to drive the design, development and deployment of agentic AI solutions in a remote US-based role. You will lead a Dev team across onshore and offshore, architect solutions, and collaborate with QA/UAT to deliver scalable AI systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS Lex/Bedrock, Strands, and multi-agent workflows, plus a focus on prompt engineering, evaluation and responsible AI controls. Remote within the USA.