Gen AI Engineer · Chennai
COGNIZANT · COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIAPRIVATE LIMITED
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Designation Offered
Gen AI Engineer
Job Role
AI Engineer
Department
Engineering
Job Type
Fulltime
Salary
1
Experience
Fresher
Job Location
Chennai
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Posted by
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIAPRIVATE LIMITED
Posted On
20 Jul 2026
Valid until
18 Sept 2026
Skillset required
Job Description for Gen AI Engineer
A role-focused description with responsibilities, expectations, and qualifications for this opening.
Gen AI Engineer is a delivery-focused opportunity based in Chennai, India.
In this role, you will develop and integrate cutting-edge Generative AI models and machine learning pipelines to solve complex business challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- In this role, you will develop and integrate cutting-edge Generative AI models and machine learning pipelines to solve complex business challenges
- Design, build, and improve software systems that support the goals of the Gen AI Engineer function.
- Translate product or business requirements into clean, maintainable technical solutions.
- Write high-quality code with appropriate testing, code review, and documentation discipline.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA, and peer engineers to deliver reliable releases.
- Investigate bugs, performance issues, and production risks with a strong root-cause mindset.
- Improve system reliability, observability, and maintainability through thoughtful engineering decisions.
- Contribute to architecture and implementation discussions with pragmatic technical trade-offs.
- Break down complex work into clear milestones and communicate status transparently.
- Refactor and simplify existing code where it improves long-term velocity and quality.
- Support release readiness by validating edge cases, dependencies, and rollback considerations.
- Share knowledge through pairing, mentoring, documentation, and constructive code reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong coding fundamentals with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Experience working with code reviews, testing practices, and collaborative delivery workflows.
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems into clear technical solutions.
- Comfort partnering with cross-functional teams in iterative product or platform environments.
- Strong debugging, communication, and ownership skills across the software lifecycle.
Applications should be submitted through the listed apply link.
About this opening
COGNIZANT is hiring a AI Engineer in the Engineering team based in Chennai.
This role is fulltime, flexible, Fresher experience, up to ₹1 per year—matched against UnoJobs' verified employer data.
Skills evaluated for this opening include Machine Learning, Generative AI. Apply directly through UnoJobs to keep your application visible to COGNIZANT without bouncing across multiple sites.
- Role
- AI Engineer
- Department
- Engineering
- Location
- Chennai
- Work mode
- Flexible
- Experience
- Fresher
- Compensation
- up to ₹1 per year
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