Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic)

Cognizant is hiring a Frontier Engineer (AI/Agentic) for its Cognizant Forward team. The role builds scalable, secure AI-enabled software and automation solutions, combining software engineering, cloud development, and AI to address client business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Use AI-assisted and augmented development tools to build, test, debug, deploy, and enhance software applications, APIs, and scalable, secure systems
• Support the development of AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions, including context and harness engineering
• Design, develop, integrate, and support full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, databases, and cloud-native application components
• Help evaluate AI-generated outputs for quality, accuracy, performance, and business relevance
• Contribute to knowledge and context systems, retrieval workflows, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and operational support
• Apply responsible AI principles and software engineering best practices while continuously learning new tools and technologies