Cognizant

Forward Deployed Engineer

Cognizant
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Base Salary

$150k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy custom agents and agentic workflows.
  • Architect enterprise agentic deployments, trust layers, permissions, context sharing, data access, and cross-agent governance.
  • Define AI orchestration architecture, state, 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 at scale.
  • Translate complex domain requirements into AI functional specifications.
  • Serve as the principal technical advisor to the pod and client and mentor Frontier Engineers.

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of experience.
  • Bachelor of Engineering degree or equivalent stated certification requirement.
  • Experience with RAG, Microsoft Copilot Studio, agentic AI, generative AI, and enterprise architecture.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Day shift in New York, NY; no travel required.

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Forward Deployed
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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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