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Cognizant

Cognizant is an award-winning global provider of information technology and business consulting services. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Teane

Staff AI Engineer

Location

United States

Posted

55 days ago

Salary

$180K - $220K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsTypeScript

Job Description

Staff AI Engineer

Cognizant

• Lead the design and delivery of major AI-powered product initiatives from concept through production, owning the full software development lifecycle • Define the technical architecture for AI systems at SecurityScorecard: LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, retrieval infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks • Set the standard for how the engineering organization builds with AI, including development practices, tooling choices, and quality bars • Use Cursor, Claude Code, and AI-native development tools as core instruments, and model what high-velocity, high-quality AI-augmented engineering looks like for the team • Collaborate directly with product leadership and the CTO organization to shape the AI product roadmap • Drive architecture reviews, establish cross-team engineering standards, and elevate the technical level of the teams you work with • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in how AI features get built, tested, and shipped across the organization • Operate with Staff-level ownership: you see the whole problem, not just your part of it

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, high-impact technical projects end-to-end
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently across the full product development lifecycle, from problem definition through production operations
  • 3+ years building and shipping AI-powered product features in production, including LLM integration, agentic systems, or intelligent automation
  • Strong product instincts: you think about user problems and business outcomes, not just technical implementation
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and strong backend engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems at scale
  • Fluency with AI-native development workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) as a primary engineering practice, not an experiment
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) and comfort with the full production stack
  • Exceptional communication: able to drive alignment across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • Stock options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursements

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