AI Engineer - NJ/ Dallas/ Atlanta
Cognizant · Middletown, NJ · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and integrate GenAI-powered applications using large language models and related AI services
- Build solutions involving prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, and AI agents
- Develop APIs, services, and application components that connect GenAI capabilities to business workflows
- Work with structured and unstructured data to support knowledge retrieval, summarization, classification, and content generation use cases
- Evaluate model performance, response quality, hallucination risk, and reliability across different scenarios
- Collaborate with product, data, engineering, and architecture teams to deliver scalable AI solutions
- Implement responsible AI practices including security, privacy, monitoring, explainability, and governance considerations
- Create documentation, reusable patterns, and technical guidance for GenAI solution development
- Stay current with emerging GenAI frameworks, model capabilities, and best practices
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of software engineering, data engineering, machine learning, or AI application development experience
- Hands-on experience building applications with large language models
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with APIs, microservices, or backend development
- Experience working with cloud-based AI services, preferably on Azure
- Understanding of model evaluation, testing, monitoring, and quality improvement techniques
- Familiarity with secure development practices and enterprise application integration
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, or related Azure AI services
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, including repositories, boards, pipelines, and release workflows
- Experience with Agentic-LLM solutions using LangChain, LangGraph, or similar tools
- Familiarity with vector databases or search platforms such as Azure AI Search
- Experience with containerization, CI/CD, and deployment automation
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale AI solutions, chatbot platforms, knowledge assistants, or intelligent automation use cases