Staff AI Customer Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $179,800–$252,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $180k versus about $216k 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 37 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $124,500–$151,250 across 28 roles with salary data.
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Staff AI Customer Engineer (Associate Director) joins the AI Market Unit as a technical advisor and leader of client discovery and solution shaping. This role involves leading ideation sessions with senior executives to identify high-value opportunities, designing end-to-end AI architectures including agentic platforms and data pipelines, and managing the full engineering lifecycle from prototype to production deployment. The position requires expertise in Python, LLMs, MLOps, and RAG retrieval architectures while utilizing tools like LangGraph, CrewAI, and various cloud platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry. Key responsibilities include balancing model risk with cost and latency, ensuring compliance with safety standards like ISO 42001, and mentoring junior engineers. The role focuses on delivering tangible business value through generative AI and advanced machine learning solutions for enterprise clients.
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