AI Engineer

About Cigna Healthcare

Cigna Healthcare is a global health service company dedicated to transforming healthcare. With roots in the U.S. and operations in over 30 countries we serve more than 180 million customers and patients worldwide. Ranked 13th on the Fortune 500 in 2025 Cigna is recognized as one of the most trusted and influential names in the industry.

Our mission is to improve the health well-being and peace of mind of those we serve.

Join our globally recognized brand where trust communication and a positive culture are at the core of everything we do. Our leadership is consistent approachable and supportive-ensuring your well-being and work-life balance.

Were looking for individuals who thrive in collaborative environments are passionate about meaningful change and want to grow in a company that puts people first.

At Cigna youll be part of a purpose-driven team that values innovation compassion and impact. Whether youre shaping better care experiences or supporting customers through lifes key moments your work will matter.

Grow with us-and help shape the future of healthcare.

Role Summary

We are seeking an AI engineer to join a team transforming healthcare and improving the lives and vitality of the millions of members we serve. The role will be a key member of a team working to develop scalable resilient and ethical AI solutions for the Cigna IH organization. Working closely with architects product teams and platform partners this role will help establish connectivity to Large Language Models (LLMs) implement layered guardrails leverage LLMs and opensource libraries and contribute to building and maintaining endtoend AI pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture and development of scalable resilient and ethical AI solutions in collaboration with Product and platform architects acting as a Generative AI practitioner.
• Support the establishment of connectivity to LLM endpoints in the enterprise cloud (AWS) including documenting DNS routing IAM policies and firewall rules.
• Implement enterprisestandard layered guardrails including input validation promptinjection mitigation runtime constraints and content safety controls.
• Apply Responsible AI principles in solution design and implementation supporting fairness transparency and compliance with enterprise governance requirements and emerging regulations.
• Utilize LLMs opensource frameworks machine learning techniques and numerical programming tools to help deliver AIenabled business solutions.
• Work with opensource libraries (e.g. TensorFlow PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers LangChain) cloud platforms and internal systems as part of crossfunctional delivery teams.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of endtoend AI pipelines including data preprocessing feature extraction model training evaluation and deployment.
• Advance AI adoption by facilitating awareness of AI trends infrastructure and emerging issues with a particular focus on LLMs and enterprise AI adoption and disseminating insights across the team

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in a technical role developing and deploying AI solutions preferably in healthcare or highly regulated industries for various countries in a medium-to-large enterprise.
• Experience in implementing sequential modelling or generative AI deep learning architectures and Transformers with a strong understanding of deep learning techniques such as GPT VAE and GANs.
• Programming experience in one of C/C Java Python and for self-supervised learning transfer learning and reinforcement learning.
• Proficiency in machine learning libraries and frameworks such as TensorFlow PyTorch LangFlow and Keras.
• Background in natural language processing (NLP) with experience utilizing tools like SpaCy NLTK and Hugging Face.
• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms and services such as AWS in particular or GCP and Azure.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative AI solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
• Possess a proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Understand responsible AI frameworks and adhere to established ethical AI principles.

Why Youll Love Working here

• Competitive salary

• Multicultural and hybrid working environment

• Private Medical Insurance

• Employee Wellbeing Benefits

• Educational Development Program

About Cigna Healthcare

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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