Senior AI Platform Engineer — GenAI & Enterprise APIs

Cognizant; San Leandro (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring an AI Platform Engineer for onsite roles in California to design, develop, and deploy scalable AI applications and platforms. The candidate should have strong C#/.NET and Python skills, plus hands-on Generative AI, LLM integration, and cloud experience.

The role focuses on building enterprise backend services, REST APIs, and microservices, with deployment via Docker/Kubernetes and modern CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable AI-enabled applications and platform services using C#, .NET/.NET Core, and Python.
• Build enterprise backend services, REST APIs, and microservices using ASP.NET Core.
• Integrate Generative AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows.
• Develop solutions involving RAG, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and AI APIs, where applicable.
• Support deployment, integration, monitoring, and productionization of AI/ML models and services.
• Develop secure and scalable integrations between .NET applications, AI services, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for .NET, Python, and AI workloads.
• Apply software engineering best practices around API security, authentication, logging, monitoring, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, architects, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready AI solutions.

Skills

C#/.NET

ASP.NET Core

Python

Generative AI

LLM integration

REST APIs / Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD / DevOps

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Relational/NoSQL databases

Software architecture & design

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cognizant is hiring an AI Platform Engineer for onsite roles in California to design, develop, and deploy scalable AI applications and platforms. The candidate should have strong C#/.NET and Python skills, plus hands-on Generative AI, LLM integration, and cloud experience.

The role focuses on building enterprise backend services, REST APIs, and microservices, with deployment via Docker/Kubernetes and modern CI/CD processes.