Frontier Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $150,867–$217,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $115k versus about $184k 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 408 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 266 roles with salary data.
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The Sr. Frontier Engineer (Remote) joins the Frontier pod as a technical lead responsible for the design and governance of agentic systems. This role involves translating complex domain requirements into scalable AI functional specifications while owning the end-to-end delivery of AI-native systems. Key responsibilities include architecting agentic deployments on enterprise platforms, defining orchestration architectures, and engineering knowledge bases, ontologies, and retrieval pipelines for grounding at scale. The candidate will utilize technologies such as Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular, Node.js, APIs, and microservices. Core competencies include agentic system architecture, RAG-at-scale, knowledge graph engineering, and AI security. The position focuses on solving enterprise-level problems by building custom agents, governing data access, and designing quality-assurance frameworks to ensure specific customer outcomes within an AI-driven era.
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