Senior Agentic AI Lead | LLMs, RAG & MLOps (Remote)

Cognizant; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Manager - Agentic AI for a remote role. You will design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production‑ready AI applications.

You will lead the development of AI systems, ensure governance, and deploy using MLOps/LLMOps practices, with a strong emphasis on memory, state management, and multi‑agent orchestration.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in AI/ML, Data Science, or Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, evaluation metrics, and model validation techniques.
• Expertise in Agentic AI concepts, including LLMs, RAG, memory, reasoning, and prompt engineering.
• Hands‑on experience building AI solutions using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Python and AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or LlamaIndex.
• Proven experience evaluating AI systems, detecting hallucinations, and measuring model performance.
• Knowledge of scalable architecture, workflow orchestration, and AI governance.
• Experience deploying production AI solutions using MLOps/LLMOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Build AI solutions using LLMs, agents, and RAG frameworks.
• Design scalable AI architectures with workflow orchestration, memory, and state management.
• Evaluate AI systems for quality, hallucinations, regression, and agent effectiveness.
• Integrate enterprise data sources and develop intelligent AI workflows.
• Deploy and manage AI applications using LLMOps/MLOps best practices.

Skills

Agentic AI

LLMs

RAG frameworks

Python

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

LlamaIndex

MLOps/LLMOps

Model evaluation

Tools

OpenAI

Azure OpenAI

Anthropic

Gemini

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Manager - Agentic AI for a remote role. You will design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production‑ready AI applications.

You will lead the development of AI systems, ensure governance, and deploy using MLOps/LLMOps practices, with a strong emphasis on memory, state management, and multi‑agent orchestration.