Master Frontier Engineer
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The project focuses on designing and deploying advanced enterprise agentic systems and AI-native solutions. Key technologies and tools include Copilot Studio, Agentforce, MCP/A2A, RAG-at-scale, knowledge graphs and ontologies, plus agent orchestration and state-management patterns. Responsibilities cover designing and deploying agents and workflows, establishing access and context governance, defining orchestration and resilience patterns, implementing AI quality and agent testing practices, and designing scalable knowledge architectures.

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Master Frontier Engineer

Company: COGNIZANT

from: 16 September 2026
to: 16 October 2026
salary not specifiedcontract of employment (full-time)
Offer parameters
level:expert
working mode:hybrid
location:London, abroad (United Kingdom)
London, abroad (United Kingdom)

Requirements

Expected technologies

LangGraph
LangChain

Our requirements

  • 7-15 years of delivery experience with deep AI-systems design expertise.
  • Strong agentic system architecture skills, including AI orchestration and state-management patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise agent platforms such as Copilot Studio or Agentforce, and MCP/A2A agent protocols.
  • Expertise in RAG-at-scale and grounding strategy, plus knowledge graph and ontology engineering.
  • Agentic test-framework design experience together with AI security and access controls.

Optional

  • AI-native solution architecture expertise paired with strong agentic engineering and orchestration.
  • Context and retrieval engineering depth for grounding agents at enterprise scale.
  • AI quality and evaluation design experience across agentic systems.
  • Technical leadership and advisory skills, with strong client engagement and the ability to mentor engineers.
  • Domain fluency, contextual judgment and a strong business-outcome orientation.

Your responsibilities

  • Design and deploy advanced agentic systems and workflows, establishing governance models for permissions, context-sharing and data access.
  • Architect enterprise-scale agent deployments on leading AI platforms, creating trust layers and cross-agent governance frameworks that enable responsible AI adoption.
  • Define orchestration patterns, state management strategies, tool-calling frameworks and resilience models for complex AI ecosystems.
  • Establish AI quality engineering practices, including agent evaluation frameworks, synthetic data strategies and agentic testing methodologies.
  • Design and scale enterprise knowledge architectures, ontologies and retrieval systems that enable trustworthy, context-aware AI experiences.
Company

About the project

As a Master Frontier Engineer, you'll help define what's next in enterprise AI. Acting as the lead architect within a Frontier pod, you'll combine deep technical expertise, business acumen and strategic thinking to design AI-native systems that create measurable outcomes for some of the world's leading organizations.
As a trusted technical advisor, you'll guide the architecture, governance and evolution of complex agentic systems, translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions, establish engineering standards and mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, turning bold ideas into production-ready capabilities that create lasting value.

What we offer

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in London, United Kingdom . Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

Benefits

  • sharing the costs of sports activities
  • private medical care
  • life insurance
  • dental care
  • cafeteria benefits

COGNIZANT

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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