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The Cigna Group · 1 day ago

IT Principal

The Cigna Group is dedicated to improving health and vitality, and they are seeking an IT Principal to lead AI engineering efforts. This role involves defining long-term AI platform strategy, making architectural decisions, and driving the adoption of AI technologies across the enterprise.

CommercialHealth CareHospitalInsuranceMedical

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 engineeringPythonAWSAI frameworksRAG architecturesOrchestration frameworksLLM providersSoftware engineeringArchitectural decisionsModel distillationSynthetic data generation

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

The Cigna Group

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The Cigna Group is a healthcare firm that focuses on providing hospital services and innovative solutions for better health.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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David Cordani
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Michele Berg
CEO Communications
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