Principal Full-Stack AI Engineer - Hybrid

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Full-Stack AI Engineer - Platform Architect to lead the design and development of a next-generation enterprise AI platform. The role focuses on architecting core platform services, developing scalable AI capabilities, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring engineers while enabling teams to build, deploy, and govern AI-powered applications and agents.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the core architecture, frameworks, and shared services that power enterprise AI platforms and agent ecosystems
• Develop scalable AI capabilities including model orchestration, lifecycle management, governance, observability, and memory services
• Create reusable tools, patterns, and automation that accelerate AI agent development and deployment
• Establish best practices for cloud-native engineering, security, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and platform reliability
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through architecture reviews and engineering excellence