Senior LLM/SLM Engineer - Remote

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an LLM Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-scale AI capabilities. You will collaborate with data scientists, platform engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable generative AI solutions.

The role emphasizes fine-tuning, optimization, RAG, and model governance to ensure production readiness and responsible AI. Remote-friendly in the US, with Louisville, KY as a stated work location.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software/AI engineering.
• 2+ years deploying Generative AI/LLM/SLM in production.
• Experience with Python and modern AI/ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, fine-tune, deploy, and optimize LLM/SLM solutions for enterprise-scale use cases.
• Develop and maintain supervised fine-tuning, model adaptation, and evaluation pipelines.
• Apply optimization techniques including LoRA, QLoRA, distillation, quantization, and model compression.
• Assess foundation models for quality, cost, scalability, and ops requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on enterprise AI solutions using approved datasets.

Skills

Extensive software/AI engineering

Production GenAI/LLM experience

Model fine-tuning and evaluation

MLOps and deployment

Python & ML frameworks

Tools

Python

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an LLM Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-scale AI capabilities. You will collaborate with data scientists, platform engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable generative AI solutions.

The role emphasizes fine-tuning, optimization, RAG, and model governance to ensure production readiness and responsible AI. Remote-friendly in the US, with Louisville, KY as a stated work location.