Cognizant

AI Engineer – Agentic & Generative AI Specialist

Cognizant
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7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement Agentic AI architectures for enterprise workflows.
  • Integrate LLMs and multimodal models into client solutions and deliver AI systems from ideation through production deployment.
  • Build, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve LLM-based Q&A models, prompt templates, retrieval strategies, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling.
  • Develop autonomous agents with state management, persistent memory, secure tool execution, planning, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with custom plugins and declarative agents through Microsoft Copilot Studio, Teams, Office apps, and Power Platform connectors.
  • Operationalize AI solutions using Microsoft AI Foundry, including model catalog management, Prompt Flow evaluation, and lifecycle governance.
  • Architect and deploy scalable agents using Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and event-driven triggers.
  • Implement AI security, ethics, governance, monitoring, error analysis, performance tuning, and reproducible engineering practices.
  • Engage clients and stakeholders through use-case discovery, workshops, assessments, solution roadmaps, executive presentations, and business-value discussions.
  • Develop reusable Agentic AI and GenAI frameworks and accelerators, provide thought leadership, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong experience with Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, and CrewAI.
  • Hands-on expertise with generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.
  • Proficiency in Python and familiarity with LangChain, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and HuggingFace Transformers.
  • Experience building Q&A systems, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, vector or semantic search solutions, and data or evaluation tooling.
  • Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and GCP Vertex AI.
  • Knowledge of MLOps practices, deployment pipelines, Git, collaborative development workflows, and cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or Domino.
  • Experience building custom copilots and plugins with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform connectors.
  • Experience deploying AI workloads to Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, or Azure Functions.
  • Experience implementing RAG with Azure AI Search and OneLake/Microsoft Fabric.
  • Ability to articulate AI business value, lead client conversations, manage stakeholders, conduct workshops, and translate technical concepts into business outcomes.
  • Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate or similar Azure OpenAI training.
  • Preferred: experience with Azure Managed Identities, Private Endpoints, Content Safety filters, Azure Monitor, and App Insights.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGitGoogle Cloud PlatformHugging Face TransformersPythonPyTorchTensorFlow
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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

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.

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