Senior Agentic AI Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $161,250–$247,362 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $115k versus about $204k for comparable roles.
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Agentic AI Engineer will lead a development team across onshore and offshore locations to design and architect solutions based on specific client requirements. This role involves hands-on development, supporting QA and UAT teams, and building production-grade Generative AI applications. Key responsibilities include developing and orchestrating AI agents, intent modeling, conversation design, and prompt engineering. You will utilize technologies such as AWS Lex, Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands SDK, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. The work focuses on building voice and chat bots, implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and managing multi-agent workflows. You must ensure secure AI deployment through guardrails, prompt injection mitigation, and performance tuning for accuracy, latency, scalability, and reliability within enterprise conversational AI systems.
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