Staff AI Customer Engineer

Cognizant

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$130,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
81 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $180k
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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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About Cognizant

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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TL;DR · Staff AI Customer Engineer

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 candidate will build production-ready applications while balancing quality, safety, latency, and cost. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python, LLMs, MLOps, and RAG architectures. Expertise is required across AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry, alongside orchestration frameworks like LangGraph or CrewAI. The role addresses the challenge of translating complex generative AI technologies into tangible business value while ensuring compliance with safety standards such as NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

What you'll do

  • Lead discovery and "art-of-the-possible" ideation sessions with C-suite and senior executive audiences.
  • Design end-to-end AI architectures including agentic platforms, data pipelines, and ML components.
  • Manage the full engineering lifecycle for production-ready AI applications from prototype to deployment.
  • Develop client-facing artifacts such as proposals, Statements of Work, and technical architecture decks.
  • Balance architectural decisions regarding quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
  • Orchestrate cross-functional teams across sales, engineering, and delivery to ensure consistent outcomes.
  • Codify reusable deployment patterns and reference implementations to build internal practice knowledge.
  • Mentor and develop junior engineers through coaching and deal reviews.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 8+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, solution architecture, pre-sales, or technical consulting.
  • Must possess executive presence to engage and influence C-suite and senior business executives in high-stakes settings.
  • Demonstrated success deploying GenAI-powered solutions in enterprise environments at scale.
  • Proven ability to lead structured discovery, ideation workshops, and solution design for complex AI opportunities.
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language with fluency in enterprise integration patterns.
  • Deep expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, MLOps/LLMOps, RAG, and evaluation frameworks like LangSmith or Arize Phoenix.
  • Experience with multi-hyperscaler platforms including AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry.
  • Work Authorization.

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