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Machine Learning Senior Advisor - HIH - Evernorth
Hyderabad, India
Actively hiring, first seen by us 4 days ago- Pay
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- Employment
Full-time — employment source
Employment type in the employer’s posting: Full time
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What you’ll work on
Full postingDesign and build backend services for AI-enabled applications
Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems
Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and safe interaction patterns
Develop and maintain APIs and service integrations
Lead technical design and review efforts
From the employer’s posting
Design and build backend services for AI-enabled applications
Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems
Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and safe interaction patterns
Develop and maintain APIs and service integrations
Lead technical design and review efforts
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- 12-16 years of software engineering experience
- Strong backend development experience in Python or similar
- Strong experience in LLM integration
- Experience building and operating cloud-based systems, preferably AWS
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure system design
Qualification wording
12-16 years of software engineering experience
Strong experience with backend development (Python, or similar)
Strong experience in LLM interation
Experience building and operating cloud-based systems (preferably AWS)
Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure system design
About Cigna
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality.
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Posting record
Report an errorActively hiringFirst seen by us 4 days ago, still listed, and not a repost of an earlier posting.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Nov 9, 20264 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 5
- Last seen by us
- Nov 13, 2026
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- 12-16 years of software engineering experience - Strong experience with backend development (Python, or similar) - Strong experience in LLM interation
Required Skills: - GenAI, Python for integrating or working with AI/ML systems, Cloud Experience (AWS) Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:
- Strong experience in LLM interation - Experience building and operating cloud-based systems (preferably AWS) - Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and service design
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About Cigna
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About the role
We file this job under AI Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
AI engineers build products on top of AI models that already exist, most often large language models: they connect a model to a company's data and tools and ship the assistants, agents and search features people use.
Postings ask for strong Python or TypeScript, experience with model APIs, retrieval and agent frameworks, and ways to test whether the model's answers are good enough.
An ML engineer trains and serves models; an AI engineer usually starts from a model someone else trained and builds the product around it, though titles often mix the two.
Job description
Machine Learning Senior Advisor
Evernorth, a leading Health Services company, is looking for exceptional engineers/developers in our Data and Analytics organization. In this role, you will actively participate with your development team on initiatives that support Evernorth's strategic goals as well as subject matter experts to understand business logic you will be engineering. As a software engineer, you will help develop an integrated architectural strategy to support next-generation capabilities on an enterprise-wide scale. You will work in an agile environment, delivering user-oriented products.
The ideal candidate will work in a team environment that demands technical excellence, whose members are expected to hold each other accountable for the overall success of the end product. Focus for this team is on the delivery of innovative solutions to complex problems, but also with a mind to drive simplicity in refining and supporting of the solution by others
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for AI-enabled applications
- Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems
- Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and safe interaction patterns
- Develop and maintain APIs and service integrations
- Ensure systems are secure, observable, and production-ready
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and platform teams
- Lead technical design and review efforts
- Mentor and support other engineers
Qualifications
Required Experience & Education:
- 12-16 years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience with backend development (Python, or similar)
- Strong experience in LLM interation
- Experience building and operating cloud-based systems (preferably AWS)
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and service design
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure system design
- Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and production support
- Experience working with graph-based or relationship centric data
Required Skills:
- GenAI, Python for integrating or working with AI/ML systems, Cloud Experience (AWS)
Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:
- Familiarity with LLM-based application patterns, prompts, responses and basic evaluation
- Understanding of responsible and controlled AI usage in production systems
Nice to Have:
- Experience with AI orchestration, workflows, or agent-based patterns
- Knowledge of semantic technologies or knowledge graphs
- Exposure to emerging AI integration standards or protocols
- Experience building internal platforms or shared services
About Evernorth Health Services
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
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