Health Data Science Intern - Predictive Analytics & NLP

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Morris Plains (NJ); On-site; USD 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Networking with senior leaders

Job summary

The Cigna Group's Evernorth Health Services Data Science Center of Expertise internship invites you to apply advanced analytics to meaningful healthcare challenges. Interns work across teams, learning from senior data science leaders and clinical stakeholders to develop scalable solutions.

The program emphasizes reproducible pipelines, responsible AI, and practical impact on health outcomes. Location-based hybrid schedule offers on-site days in Morris Plains, NJ with remote work options.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a master's degree or PhD in data science, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, bioinformatics, computational linguistics, or another quantitative field.
• At least 1 year of hands-on data science or analytics experience gained through coursework, research, internships, or professional projects.
• Working knowledge of Python or R, probability and statistics, and data preparation, cleansing, and interpretation.
• Experience developing or evaluating analytical methods such as regression, decision trees, clustering, machine learning, text mining, or natural language processing.
• Ability to explain technical work clearly, collaborate across disciplines, and adapt based on feedback and new information.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate predictive, machine learning, NLP, or generative AI solutions addressing healthcare and business challenges.
• Translate large, varied datasets into insights to improve member outcomes, experiences, and operations.
• Partner with data scientists, engineers, leaders, and clinicians to define problems and turn research into scalable solutions.
• Build reproducible data pipelines, models, and visualizations using Python, R, SQL, Spark, or related technologies.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Apply responsible, growth-oriented practices by testing assumptions, documenting methods, and considering data quality, privacy, fairness, and model performance.
• Past projects have included predictive models, real-time NLP platforms, conversational AI, transformer-based topic classification, and OCR-based extraction of clinical entities.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Spark

Education

Master's or PhD in data science or quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Hive SQL

Spark

PySpark

Scala

Hadoop

HDFS

Job description

The Cigna Group's Evernorth Health Services Data Science Center of Expertise internship invites you to apply advanced analytics to meaningful healthcare challenges. Interns work across teams, learning from senior data science leaders and clinical stakeholders to develop scalable solutions.

The program emphasizes reproducible pipelines, responsible AI, and practical impact on health outcomes. Location-based hybrid schedule offers on-site days in Morris Plains, NJ with remote work options.