Cognizant is hiring an AI Engineer for a remote role based in Pleasanton, CA, with work primarily within Pacific Time Zone business hours. You will design and deliver advanced AI solutions for healthcare and healthcare insurance functions, including Risk Adjustment, Revenue Cycle Management, and clinical intelligence. The position also supports compliant, scalable AI pipelines and modern RAG/LLM applications.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven solutions using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), and vector database technologies.
- Build scalable clinical document search and knowledge retrieval platforms to process and analyze large volumes of healthcare data and unstructured content.
- Develop and optimize AI pipelines for document indexing, semantic search, data enrichment, classification, and healthcare analytics use cases.
- Partner with product, business, and clinical stakeholders to translate requirements into secure, scalable, and compliant AI solutions.
- Drive ongoing improvements in model performance, data quality, automation, observability, and operational excellence.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong experience designing and implementing AI solutions using RAG frameworks and vector databases.
- Hands-on experience building enterprise AI applications that include semantic search, knowledge retrieval, document intelligence, and LLMs.
- Experience with data preprocessing, data quality management, data sanitation, and annotation and labeling workflows.
- Proven ability to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of large-scale AI systems.
- Experience designing and supporting high-volume AI-powered document search for unstructured content.
- Knowledge of cloud-based AI and machine learning solutions, preferably within Microsoft Azure.
- Understanding of healthcare data, healthcare insurance operations, and AI governance best practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting Risk Adjustment, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), claims analytics, or healthcare payer operations.
- Familiarity with healthcare compliance standards including HIPAA, ICD coding, and healthcare data privacy requirements.
- Experience with Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, or similar cloud-native platforms.
- Knowledge of vector database technologies, semantic search architectures, and enterprise knowledge management solutions.
- Experience designing user interfaces, dashboards, and AI-driven business applications.
- Experience developing generative AI solutions in highly regulated healthcare environments.
Salary and incentive
The annual salary range for this position is $100,000 to $145,000 USD, depending on experience and other qualifications.
This role may be eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Applications will be accepted until August 21, 2026.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Technologies you’ll work with
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Large language models (LLMs)
- Vector database technologies
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure AI services
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure Machine Learning
- HIPAA
- ICD coding
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
