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Onco360

Telecommunications Engineer II

Louisville, KY · On-site +1

$78K/yr

Lead the design, configuration, and optimization of voice infrastructure, including PBX, VoIP, SIP ... Engineer office and remote work telecom solutions that support a "work from anywhere" model through ...

Humana

XIAM Software Engineer 2

Louisville, KY · Remote

... and optimizing applications that support our business requirements. In this dynamic role, you'll ... Limited Geography Remote - This is a remote position but located within a specific geography. Wor ...

Humana

XIAM Software Engineer 2

Louisville, KY · Remote

... and optimizing applications that support our business requirements. In this dynamic role, you'll ... Limited Geography Remote - This is a remote position but located within a specific geography. Wor ...

Humana

XIAM Software Engineer 2

Louisville, KY · Remote

... and optimizing applications that support our business requirements. In this dynamic role, you'll ... Limited Geography Remote - This is a remote position but located within a specific geography. Wor ...

Bluelight Consulting

Optimization: Refactor existing software continuously using Agile methodologies to improve overall ... Partner with product managers and data engineering teams to safely extract, parse, and serve multi ...

SCHWAN'S

Principal Project Engineer

Florence, KY · On-site +1

$107K - $178K/yr

Our CJ Schwan's engineering team is seeking a remote-based Principal Project Engineer, with ... diagrams, optimum layout, utility demands, mass balance calculations, project budgets, and ...

Humana

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Louisville, KY · Remote

$110K - $150K/yr

Designed, tested, and optimized Python scripts for data processing and workflow automation within ... Additional Information Remote/WAH requirements: * WAH requirements: Must have the ability to ...

Humana

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Louisville, KY · Remote

$110K - $150K/yr

Designed, tested, and optimized Python scripts for data processing and workflow automation within ... Additional Information Remote/WAH requirements: * WAH requirements: Must have the ability to ...

Humana

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Louisville, KY · Remote

$110K - $150K/yr

Designed, tested, and optimized Python scripts for data processing and workflow automation within ... Additional Information Remote/WAH requirements: * WAH requirements: Must have the ability to ...

Bluelight Consulting

Optimization: Refactor existing software continuously using Agile methodologies to improve overall ... Partner with product managers and data engineering teams to safely extract, parse, and serve multi ...

micro1 AI

Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Lexington, KY · Remote

$80 - $110/hr

Remote micro1 is engaging Computational Biology & Cheminformatics Experts to contribute their ... Evaluate compound-target interactions, ADMET properties, and lead optimization strategies by ...

Humana

Senior Insider Threat Engineer

Louisville, KY · On-site +1

$110K - $150K/yr

Become a part of our caring community (Remote role, though selected candidate is required to live ... day optimization of enterprise insider threat technologies at Humana. Reporting to the Insider ...

Humana

Senior Insider Threat Engineer

Louisville, KY · On-site +1

$110K - $150K/yr

Become a part of our caring community (Remote role, though selected candidate is required to live ... day optimization of enterprise insider threat technologies at Humana. Reporting to the Insider ...

Private Label Staff

Senior Salesforce Specialist

Florence, KY · On-site +1

$124K - $152K/yr

Senior Salesforce Developer A growing and highly collaborative organization is conducting a ... While the position will begin as fully remote, candidates should be comfortable transitioning to a ...

C-Plan.IT

VP Engineering and R&D - AI Startup

Louisville, KY · Remote

$172K - $221K/yr

... optimization. Unlike competitive solutions that focus on cost or asset management only C-Plan.IT ... Privately funded, we are a fully remote company with a 100% distributed team allowing us to hire ...

C-Plan.IT

VP Engineering and R&D - AI Startup

Louisville, KY · On-site +1

$172K - $221K/yr

... optimization. Unlike competitive solutions that focus on cost or asset management only C-Plan.IT ... Privately funded, we are a fully remote company with a 100% distributed team allowing us to hire ...

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LLM Engineer (Remote)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Louisville, KY • On-site, Remote

$141K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 9 days ago

Cognizant rating

7.0

Company rating: 7.0 out of 10

Based on 87 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

59th of 72 rated business consultants

Job description

LLM Engineer
About the role
As LLM Engineer, you will make an impact by designing, building, optimizing, and deploying Large Language Model (LLM) and Small Language Model (SLM) solutions that power the enterprise Agent Factory. You will be a valued member of the AI Engineering team and work collaboratively with data scientists, platform engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, production-ready generative AI capabilities.
In this role, you will:
  • Design, build, fine-tune, deploy, and optimize LLM and SLM solutions for enterprise-scale use cases.
  • Develop and maintain supervised fine-tuning, model adaptation, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Apply advanced model optimization techniques including LoRA, QLoRA, distillation, quantization, and model compression to improve performance and efficiency.
  • Assess commercial, open-source, and internally hosted foundation models based on quality, cost, scalability, and operational requirements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support domain-specific AI solutions using approved enterprise datasets and best practices for responsible AI.

Work model:
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in Louisville, KY. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
*Please note that this position is not eligible for visa transfer or sponsorship now or at any time in the future*
What you need to have to be considered
  • 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying Generative AI, LLM, SLM, or Agentic AI solutions in production environments.
  • Experience building enterprise-grade AI applications utilizing LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, APIs, and cloud or on-premises platforms.
  • Strong understanding of model fine-tuning, adaptation, evaluation frameworks, and AI quality measurement methodologies.
  • Proficiency in machine learning development, model deployment, and MLOps best practices.
  • Experience working with Python and modern AI/ML frameworks and tools.

These will help you stand out
  • Knowledge of AI infrastructure, GPU optimization, and large-scale model serving.
  • Experience implementing model governance, responsible AI, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embedding models, and advanced RAG architectures.
  • Experience building enterprise AI platforms, multi-agent systems, or agent orchestration frameworks.

Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until September 17th, 2026.
The annual salary for this position is between $ 81,337 to $141,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
About 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.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] for roles based in the Americas or [email protected] for roles based in India.

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