Cognizant

Applied AI Engineer – Equities & Fixed Income Sales

Cognizant
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13 days ago

Base Salary

$90k - $110k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy AI agents, copilots, workflow automations, prompt libraries, agent frameworks, and workflow templates for Equities and Fixed Income Sales.
  • Build sales productivity tools for meeting preparation, client prioritization, opportunity identification, research distribution, market commentary, next-best actions, and cross-selling.
  • Develop dashboards and commercial analytics covering revenue, wallet share, market share, pipeline, client activity, coverage, and management reporting.
  • Integrate CRM, research, holdings, market activity, and sales data into actionable insights and automate recurring reporting workflows.
  • Design and build production-grade applications, APIs, workflows, and data products using testing, source control, monitoring, documentation, and release management practices.
  • Implement AI evaluation and monitoring frameworks addressing quality, accuracy, hallucination risk, latency, cost, adoption, and user feedback.
  • Build controlled, auditable, permissioned, and compliant AI workflows using approved and governed data sources.
  • Partner with Technology, Data, Compliance, Risk, Sales, Trading, Research, and COO teams to deploy scalable solutions.

Requirements

  • Expert Python and strong SQL skills.
  • Experience building production AI applications and agent-based workflows.
  • Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, semantic search, vector databases, and agentic frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with APIs, workflow orchestration, data pipelines, enterprise integrations, and enterprise cloud platforms.
  • Understanding of LLMOps, model evaluation, observability, monitoring, testing, AI governance, DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, identity management, and access controls.
  • Experience working with sensitive business data in controlled environments, including entitlements, information barriers, auditability, and permissioning.
  • Strong understanding of institutional sales workflows, client coverage models, CRM workflows, client prioritization, research distribution, market commentary, sales productivity, revenue attribution, wallet share, market share, pipeline management, and client analytics.
  • Working knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income, Credit, Rates, FX, Financing, or related capital markets businesses.
  • Ability to engage credibly with Sales, Trading, Research, COO, Technology, and Compliance stakeholders and take solutions from concept through production deployment.

Benefits

  • Fully onsite in New York City; only local candidates will be considered.
  • 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 Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable plans and eligibility requirements.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ApplicationsData Engineering
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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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