# SR Data scientist /ML Engineer

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.). Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and we are among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. ML/AI Data Scientist Role Summary Build the matching, inference, and labeling models that resolve entities into golden records and bring Gemini-assisted intelligence into the ontology. Key Responsibilities Own entity matching and bridging: design and build fuzzy and exact matching models to stitch duplicate entities into golden records. Build inference models to support data profiling - identifying patterns, relationships, and anomalies in profiled source data. Support the business-ontology effort with Gemini-assisted labeling models that classify records into business domains (Location, Asset, Service, Event, Work-ticket). Design and build labeling workflows combining weak supervision, LLM-assisted labeling, and human-in-the-loop review. Deploy and manage mat

- **Id**: 3998540
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-sr-data-scientist-ml-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Phoenix, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:39:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:25:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4515
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 178
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.489
- **Repost share**: 0.056
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 23
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 125000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 125000

## Technologies

- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: yes
- **Google Cloud Spanner** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T02:25:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,264; Filings 12m: 8264

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T04:12:21Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 125000
- **Is top pay**: no

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