Staff AI Customer Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $183,674–$250,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $180k versus about $217k 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 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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The Staff AI Customer Engineer (Associate Director) joins the AI Market Unit to lead client discovery, solution shaping, and opportunity development for generative AI and advanced AI. This role involves embedding with strategic clients to build production-ready applications, owning the engineering lifecycle from prototype to deployment. Key responsibilities include shaping end-to-end architectures, defining agentic platforms, and managing executive relationships. The position requires expertise in Python, LLMs, MLOps, and multi-hyperscaler platforms including AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry. Candidates must design retrieval architectures, multi-agent systems using LangGraph or CrewAI, and establish observability via LangSmith or Arize Phoenix. The role solves complex business problems by balancing quality, safety, latency, and cost while ensuring compliance with NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 standards.
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