2 days ago
Base Salary
$90k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy custom agents and agentic workflows while governing permissions, context sharing, and data access.
- Architect enterprise agent deployments, trust layers, and cross-agent governance.
- Define orchestration architecture, state management, tool-calling, and failure-mode patterns.
- Design agentic quality-assurance frameworks, test orchestration, and synthetic-data strategies.
- Engineer enterprise knowledge bases, ontologies, and retrieval pipelines for agent grounding.
- Translate complex domain requirements into AI functional specifications.
- Integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications using software engineering principles and application-development technologies.
- Mentor Frontier Engineers and provide technical architecture advice to the pod and clients.
Requirements
- 7–15 years of delivery experience with deep AI-systems design experience.
- Strong software engineering and application-development background using Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular, Node.js, or similar technologies.
- Experience with agentic system architecture, enterprise agent platforms, AI orchestration and state-management patterns, agentic test-framework design, knowledge graphs and ontologies, retrieval-augmented generation at scale, MCP/A2A protocols, and AI security and access controls.
- Ability to demonstrate independent agentic-system design and domain governance.
- Successful completion of the Frontier CoE assessment at Specialist level.
- Technical advisory, client engagement, domain fluency, contextual judgment, and business-outcome orientation.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.
- Remote position.
- Applications accepted until Nov 27, 2026.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.