Data Scientist, ML / GenAI / LLM
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$232,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $145k versus about $197k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 341 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$133,500 across 219 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI & LLM Engineering joins the Artificial Intelligence and Analytics practice to design, tune, evaluate, and deploy enterprise-scale AI and machine learning solutions. You will perform advanced exploratory data analysis and statistical analysis to identify actionable business insights while building generative AI systems, including RAG applications, AI agents, and knowledge-driven systems. Key responsibilities include fine-tuning, benchmarking, and optimizing large language models for latency, accuracy, and cost efficiency. You will develop MLOps and LLMOps pipelines for model versioning and monitoring across cloud and on-premises environments. Required expertise includes Python, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. You must demonstrate proficiency in vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation frameworks to solve complex business problems while ensuring responsible AI and data governance standards.
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