Sr. ServiceNow AI Agent Engineer at Cognizant
Raleigh, NC
$135,000–$155,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Raleigh, NC
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maturing an agentic system that converts user stories into ServiceNow configuration changes and deploys them to sandbox environments. Day-to-day work spans prompt architecture, multi-agent orchestration, MCP server development in Python and TypeScript, ServiceNow platform integrations, and observability tooling. Suited to engineers with deep LLM agent production experience and hands-on ServiceNow platform knowledge.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 790 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 160–1,450
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The '3+ years building or operating large language model agent systems in production' is a sub-requirement within the 10+ years overall experience gate; it is captured as the years demanded on the LLM agent systems skill.
Agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, AutoGen, LlamaIndex Agents) are listed as a single interchangeable requirement under 'What you need to have'; LangGraph is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Langfuse and OpenTelemetry appear in the responsibilities narrative ('tools such as Langfuse and OpenTelemetry') rather than in the requirements section, so they are marked preferred.
Cosmos DB appears in the responsibilities narrative (design knowledge/memory architecture) and is also listed under the 'These will help you stand out' (nice-to-have) section; marked preferred.
The 'These will help you stand out' section is the explicit nice-to-have/preferred block; all skills sourced solely from it are marked preferred.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
No visa sponsorship is available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US.
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