Senior AI/ML Engineer - Remote (Generative AI & NLP)

Cognizant; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 88,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design and deliver AI-powered solutions at enterprise scale. You will leverage ML/NLP, Generative AI, and Agentic AI to build production-ready systems that accelerate decision-making and automate processes.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable, governed AI solutions and ensure adherence to enterprise standards and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Data Science, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in ML/AI/Data Science.
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise AI/ML solutions.
• Proven Generative AI experience (RAG, agents, prompt engineering).
• Expertise in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Hugging Face).
• Experience with LangGraph and/or LangChain.
• Strong NLP skills (classification, semantic similarity, embeddings, topic modeling).
• Experience building data pipelines with SQL and PySpark.
• Experience deploying on AWS/Azure/GCP and container tech (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of MLOps: deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions.
• Build Generative AI and Agentic AI apps with multi-agent orchestration.
• Develop RAG and Text-to-SQL solutions.
• Create LLM evaluation, monitoring, and governance frameworks.
• Design scalable NLP solutions including classification, semantic search, and embeddings.
• Develop ML models using statistical and deep learning methods.
• Build data pipelines with Python, PySpark, SQL, and cloud-native tools.
• Implement MLOps: CI/CD, validation, monitoring, drift detection, quality controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable AI.
• Ensure governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI standards.

Skills

Python

ML development

NLP

Generative AI

Agentic AI

RAG

LangChain

LangGraph

LLM evaluation

MLOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL / PySpark

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Scikit-Learn

Hugging Face

Docker

Kubernetes

PySpark

AWS / Azure / GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design and deliver AI-powered solutions at enterprise scale. You will leverage ML/NLP, Generative AI, and Agentic AI to build production-ready systems that accelerate decision-making and automate processes.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable, governed AI solutions and ensure adherence to enterprise standards and security.