Senior AI Architect: Agentic LLMs & RAG (Remote)

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability coverages

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer for a remote, full-time role. You will design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready AI applications. The role emphasizes designing scalable architectures, evaluating AI systems, integrating data sources, and deploying AI workflows with MLOps/LLMOps practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in AI/ML, data science, or software engineering.
• Strong understanding of ML 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

AI/ML experience

ML evaluation

Agentic AI

LLMs & RAG

Python & frameworks

MLOps/LLMOps

Model governance

Tools

OpenAI Platform

Azure OpenAI Service

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

LlamaIndex

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer for a remote, full-time role. You will design, build, and deploy enterprise AI solutions leveraging LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG architectures.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready AI applications. The role emphasizes designing scalable architectures, evaluating AI systems, integrating data sources, and deploying AI workflows with MLOps/LLMOps practices.