Agentic AI Frontier Engineer - Associate Director - 68938091

About the role

As an Agentic AI Frontier Engineer, you’ll lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and engineering of Agentic and Generative AI solutions for enterprise clients - turning complex business problems into scalable, secure, and responsible AI architecture built on LLMs, multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and cloud-native platforms.

This high-visibility role sits at the center of Cognizant’s three-vector AI strategy: unlocking productivity, scaling AI adoption from pilots to enterprise-wide impact, and leading agent-led transformation. You’ll help shape how large enterprises move beyond experimentation to build, deploy, and govern intelligent systems at scale.

In this role, you’ll partner with business stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, engineers, and security teams to embed autonomous decision-making, human-in-the-loop controls, and Responsible AI principles across the solution lifecycle.

In this role, you will

Agentic & Gen AI Frontier Engineers

Architect multi-agent systems capable of autonomous task planning, execution, reflection, and escalation within defined harnesses and guardrails

Design end-to-end Agentic & Gen AI architectures, including LLM selection, agent orchestration, memory, tools, and human oversight mechanisms

Define architectures covering data ingestion, vector stores, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent workflows, APIs, and integration layers

Responsible & Ethical AI

Embed Responsible AI principles including fairness, explainability, transparency, human oversight, blast radius, and kill-switch mechanisms

Ensure compliance with AI governance standards, enterprise security policies, and regulatory frameworks

Guide teams on agent behaviour constraints, risk mitigation, and outcome monitoring

Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement

Translate business use cases into AI solution blueprints, reference architectures, and imp...