Cognizant has announced a major initiative to hire 1,000 engineers over the next year. This move is part of a strategic effort to industrialize agentic AI, which involves creating AI systems that can reason, act, and adapt to business needs. Cognizant is partnering with Workfabric AI to power this initiative.
The new engineers will use Workfabric AI’s ContextFabric platform, which is designed to use a company’s “organizational DNA”—its workflows, data, and processes—in actionable context for AI agents. This platform will serve as a continuous layer, ensuring that AI agents stay aligned with enterprise goals and operational realities. According to Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant, the new discipline of context engineering is the key lever for the current AI era. He stated that Cognizant’s expertise in engineering and operations positions it to help clients move beyond early experimentation and achieve scalable AI adoption.
The role of a context engineer combines domain, functional, and technical expertise. These professionals will be responsible for capturing and managing enterprise knowledge, building integration pipelines, and creating reusable context assets for various industry applications. Workfabric AI’s CEO, Rohan N. Murty, noted that the ContextFabric platform has demonstrated significant performance improvements in enterprise deployments, including up to 3x higher accuracy and 70% fewer hallucinations, leading to faster deployment times and a higher return on investment.
