2 days ago
Base Salary
$117k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver scalable Generative AI, LLM, agentic AI, and RAG solutions for enterprise applications.
- Design and build AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, orchestration workflows, reusable services, APIs, and accelerators.
- Develop architecture patterns for prompt engineering, context management, grounding, guardrails, model evaluation, and structured outputs.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools including GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
- Establish practices for responsible AI, LLMOps, observability, security, governance, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Mentor engineering teams and drive enterprise AI standards and AI transformation initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, software engineering, AI/ML, or related technology disciplines.
- Hands-on experience architecting and delivering enterprise Generative AI and LLM-based applications.
- Proven experience building AI agents, copilots, RAG solutions, and LLM-powered workflows.
- Strong knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, retrieval strategies, agent orchestration, and model evaluation.
- Experience with AWS cloud services, preferably Amazon Bedrock, and cloud-native application architectures.
- Expertise with APIs, microservices, containers, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of AI security, responsible AI, governance, observability, and production monitoring.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Palantir, enterprise AI platforms, vector databases, enterprise knowledge management platforms, agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, LLMOps, MLOps, AI evaluation frameworks, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, AI reference architectures, regulated industries, and AI transformation initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Charlotte, NC.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- 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 a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.
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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.