Applied AI Engineer – Equities & Fixed Income Sales

Cognizant is an IT consulting firm that leverages modern technologies to transform business operations. The Applied AI Engineer will work directly with Equities and Fixed Income Sales teams to build and deploy AI agents, workflow automations, analytics applications, CRM workflows, and productivity tools. The role also involves production engineering, commercial analytics, and responsible AI governance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy AI agents, copilots, and workflow automations for Equities and Fixed Income Sales
• Build additional tools that help salespeople prepare for meetings, prioritize clients, identify opportunities, distribute research, and generate market commentary
• Create reusable prompt libraries, agent frameworks, and workflow templates
• Develop next-best-action, client prioritization, and cross-sell recommendation capabilities
• Build additional dashboards and analytics tools for Sales, Management, and COO teams
• Develop revenue, wallet share, market share, pipeline, client activity, and coverage analytics
• Integrate CRM, research, holdings, market activity, and sales data into actionable insights
• Automate recurring reporting and management information workflows
• Design and build production-grade applications, APIs, workflows, and data products
• Apply modern software engineering practices including testing, source control, CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, and release management
• Partner with Technology, Data, Compliance, and Risk teams to deploy scalable and supportable solutions
• Implement evaluation and monitoring frameworks for AI applications
• Measure and improve quality, accuracy, hallucination risk, latency, cost, adoption, and user feedback
• Ensure solutions are controlled, auditable, permissioned, and compliant
• Build AI workflows that respect data entitlements, access controls, and governance requirements