Senior Generative AI Engineer - Remote

Important Disclaimers

**Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**

Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

In this role, you will

Design and develop Generative AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, and AI agent frameworks.

Build, integrate, and optimize AI-powered applications and APIs for business use cases.

Develop prompt engineering, context management, and model fine-tuning strategies.

Ensure AI solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and governance standards.

Collaborate with business and technical teams to identify and implement AI opportunities.

Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and drive AI best practices across projects.

Location

Sunnyvale, CA

Work model

Remote

What you need to have to be considered

Frameworks

LangChain, LlamaIndex, and LangGraph

Core Languages

Python, SQL, and Java

APIs

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini

OSS Models

Llama 3, Mistral, and Hugging Face

Techniques

Prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning

Vector Stores

Pinecone, Chroma, and Milvus

Agentic Workflows

Multi-agent systems and tool calling

Evaluation

TruLens, Ragas, and LLM-as-a-judge

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 10/9/2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $46K – 93,500K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to app