Cognizant

Forward Deployed Engineer

Cognizant
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Base Salary

$180k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design AI-native enterprise architectures and human-agent capability matrices for delivery programs.
  • Author guardrail specifications and boundary documentation for enterprise-scale agentic systems.
  • Lead client architecture review workshops and produce context-pipeline blueprints.
  • Govern ADLC adoption and define standards for AI-generated code quality.
  • Architect responsible-AI frameworks covering bias detection, explainability, and audit trails.
  • Design regulated AI decisioning systems with appropriate compliance controls.
  • Build, ship, and permanently own AI-native systems end to end within a Frontier pod.

Requirements

  • 12–20 years of experience with enterprise AI architecture leadership.
  • Expertise in AI-native enterprise architecture, guardrail specification, responsible-AI framework design, and context-pipeline architecture at scale.
  • Experience with ADLC delivery governance, cross-platform AI integration strategy, and AIOps orchestration architecture.
  • Experience with regulated AI decisioning, frontier-model evaluation, red-teaming, and human-agent capability modeling.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, advisory ability, AI quality and evaluation design, domain judgment, and business-outcome orientation.
  • Demonstrated enterprise-scale AI architecture and responsible-AI leadership.
  • Successful completion of the Frontier CoE assessment at Architect level.

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 a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.

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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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