Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Cortex Engineer for a senior data engineering role focused on architecting, building, and scaling chat-with-data capabilities for an enterprise-grade, customer-facing platform. The ideal candidate has deep experience with production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, Snowflake Cortex, and reliability frameworks for trustworthy, explainable AI.
What You'll Do
- Develop and scale RAG-based workflows powering chat-with-data and conversational analytics experiences.
- Build and operationalize Snowflake Cortex Agents, Analysts, and Search solutions.
- Design ingestion, preprocessing, embedding, and vector search pipelines supporting large-scale datasets.
- Implement guardrails, evaluation metrics, and automated testing frameworks for trustworthy AI.
- Optimize performance across embedding models, vector indexes, and LLM inference layers.
- Ensure secure handling, governance, and monitoring of structured and unstructured data assets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, ML, and product teams to deliver scalable AI-driven capabilities.
- Drive continuous improvement in retrieval quality, latency, observability, and failure handling.
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on expertise with RAG architectures, embedding models, chunking, and retrieval optimization.
- Strong experience with Snowflake Cortex (Agents, Analysts, Search, vector functions).
- Proficiency in Python and SQL with experience building scalable data pipelines.
- Solid knowledge of vector databases and indexing strategies.
- Experience with unstructured data processing and document intelligence workflows.
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Guardrails).
- Experience building testing, observability, reliability, and guardrail frameworks for AI systems.
- Strong system design, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Technical Stack
- Python, SQL
- Snowflake Cortex, RAG, Vector Databases
- LangChain, LlamaIndex, Guardrails
Team & Environment
You will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering, ML, and product teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $110,000 – $120,000 USD
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and wellness days
- Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health support
- Professional development, certification reimbursement, and learning resources
- Remote work flexibility with home office support
Work Mode
This role is based locally within the United States.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer.
