23 hours 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 responsible AI, LLMOps, observability, security, governance, CI/CD, and production monitoring practices.
- Mentor engineering teams, define enterprise AI standards, and collaborate with application engineering, cloud, data, security, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
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.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred experience with Palantir, enterprise AI platforms, vector databases, enterprise knowledge management platforms, agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, LLMOps, MLOps, AI evaluation frameworks, AI governance, AI-enabled developer productivity tools, 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.
- Eligibility 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.