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Cigna Healthcare · 1 month ago

IT Principal

Bloomfield, CT

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$149K/yr - $248K/yr

12+ years exp

Cigna Healthcare is dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those they serve. They are seeking an AI Engineering Principal to lead the technical strategy for AI platform engineering, making critical architectural decisions and driving the evolution of AI capabilities across the enterprise.

Hospital & Health Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define long-term AI platform strategy and anticipate technology shifts

Make foundational architectural decisions shaping enterprise AI for years

Champion strategic investments for sustainable healthcare AI advantage

Establish technical principles and reference architectures as organizational standards

Architect and implement enterprise AI platforms on AWS balancing speed, security, HIPAA compliance, and cost

Create frameworks that simplify complexity and accelerate AI development

Build advanced RAG systems with graph databases, vector stores, and intelligent retrieval

Develop agent frameworks for planning, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration

Implement techniques like model distillation, fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, and evaluation pipelines

Deliver observability platforms for model performance and cost tracking

Build security and compliance frameworks addressing prompt injection, data leakage, adversarial attacks, and HIPAA

Qualification

AI platform engineeringPythonAWS expertiseAI frameworksRAG architecturesLLM providers knowledgeOrchestration frameworksSoftware engineeringArchitectural decisionsMulti-agent collaboration

Required

Bachelor's in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)

12+ years in software engineering, 6+ years building production AI/ML systems at scale

Expert in Python and AI frameworks; recognized contributions to open source or standards

Proven experience architecting AI platforms serving thousands of users or millions of requests

Deep knowledge of LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Llama) and model architectures

Mastery of orchestration frameworks (Langchain, Pydantic-AI, LangGraph)

Advanced expertise in RAG architectures and query optimization

Expert-level AWS knowledge including Bedrock, SageMaker, and cost optimization

Benefits

Medical

Vision

Dental

Well-being and behavioral health programs

401(k)

Company paid life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year

Paid holidays

Company

Cigna Healthcare

We are a health benefits provider that advocates for better health through every stage of life.

Founded in 1982

Bloomfield, CT, US

10001+ employees

http://www.cigna.com

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