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 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.
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