Senior AWS Agentic AI Engineer — Autonomous AI Agents

Cognizant; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant seeks an experienced AI systems architect in Dallas, TX, to design, build, and deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents on AWS. You will leverage Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenSearch, and vector stores to enable safe, scalable, production-grade AI services.

You will collaborate across architecture, DevOps, data engineering, and security teams to implement end-to-end AI solutions with strong governance, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
• 8–12 years of IT experience with 3+ years building agentic AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop agentic AI systems using Bedrock, Claude, and Titan.
• Build autonomous agents with multi-step reasoning and human-in-the-loop collaboration.
• Integrate with SageMaker for model training, tuning, and evaluation.
• Implement RAG solutions using OpenSearch, Aurora, DynamoDB, and vector stores.
• Optimize inference cost, latency, and reliability across workloads.
• Establish guardrails, monitoring, and governance for safe AI deployments.
• Collaborate with architecture, DevOps, data engineering, and security teams.

Skills

AWS cloud-native

Python

Large language models

RAG

Team leadership

AI system design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Bedrock

SageMaker

OpenSearch

Aurora

DynamoDB

FAISS

Pinecone

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Cognizant seeks an experienced AI systems architect in Dallas, TX, to design, build, and deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents on AWS. You will leverage Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenSearch, and vector stores to enable safe, scalable, production-grade AI services.

You will collaborate across architecture, DevOps, data engineering, and security teams to implement end-to-end AI solutions with strong governance, monitoring, and cost optimization.