Cognizant launches Ace Team Program to build AI engineering talent
Cognizant has launched the Ace Team Program to identify and develop top engineering talent with expertise in AI and advanced technologies. The initiative aims to support digital transformation projects, accelerate innovation and strengthen the company's evolution into an AI-focused organisation
Hyderabad: Cognizant announced the launch of the Cognizant Ace Team Program, a strategic initiative designed to build a cohort of top engineering talent that will deliver cutting-edge digital transformation for clients and play a central role in the company’s evolution into an AI builder organisation.
The program is designed to enable the creation of high-value, niche AI offerings and support the execution of complex, large-scale technology initiatives, while accelerating innovation across the ecosystem.
Selection for the Cognizant Ace Team Program is based on advanced technical competency, AI fluency and strong communication skills, rather than institution-based criteria. The multi-stage evaluation process includes communication assessment, aptitude assessment, technical assessment and technical interviews, and is designed to gauge industry-ready capabilities such as full-stack AI development, data structures and algorithms, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI and modern front-end development.
Selected candidates may be hired into differentiated roles with distinct career paths, deployment models and types of work.