Senior Generative AI Engineer - Hybrid (Azure/Google Cloud)

Cognizant; Arkansas; Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a Senior Generative AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable generative AI and analytics solutions on cloud platforms. You will collaborate with program managers, engineering leads, developers, and client stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready AI applications.

This hybrid role in Bentonville, AR emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/SQL, building retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and deploying solutions on Azure or Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering, data, analytics, ML, or AI experience, with hands-on generative AI experience.
• Strong programming experience with Python and SQL, and building production-ready applications.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph.
• Experience with large language model APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini.
• Practical experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, agentic workflows, tool calling, and multi-agent systems.
• Experience deploying AI or analytics applications on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable generative AI, ML, and analytics solutions for deployment on Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and lead technical conversations with program managers and stakeholders.
• Develop high-quality applications using established coding standards, automated tests, and code coverage requirements.
• Build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation workflows, prompt-based solutions, fine-tuned models, and agentic AI workflows.
• Support solutions through testing, production deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance improvements.
• Document architecture, designs, and service specifications while guiding developers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Software engineering

AI/ML

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

LangGraph

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Google Gemini

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a Senior Generative AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable generative AI and analytics solutions on cloud platforms. You will collaborate with program managers, engineering leads, developers, and client stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready AI applications.

This hybrid role in Bentonville, AR emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/SQL, building retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and deploying solutions on Azure or Google Cloud.