Data Scientist Summer Internship - Work from home - Evernorth

Looking for an internship program where you'll make a real difference - rather than just completing busy work? Then you've come to the right place. Cigna's Summer Internship Program is designed to assign you projects that have a lasting impact on our business - which touches millions of people across the globe.

As an intern, you'll get an inside look at your desired field, while working next to some of the best in the industry. Program activities, including an executive speaker series, volunteer events, and career development workshops, give you the opportunity to network with employees across the organization and prepare you for a full-time career.

Where You'll Work

Evernorth, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cigna Corporation, is seeking 2023 Summer Interns who have a passion for applying advanced analytics and Data Science to healthcare's biggest challenges with the aim of improving the affordability of healthcare.

Evernorth's purpose is to manage best-in-class total health care outcomes and make a difference in affordability, quality, complexity and inequality - all powered by our proprietary benefits, pharmacy, care and intelligence solutions and partnerships. Our charge is to identify and break down barriers to care, enabling our most vulnerable and underserved populations to live their best life. Be a part of our purpose-driven organization and be on the frontier of something great!

What You'll Do

The Data Scientist Internship is an exciting opportunity to be part of Enterprise Data Science team at Evernorth which is making healthcare affordable, predictable and simple. The internship will involve using data science techniques that include predictive modeling, machine learning, text mining, segmentation and clustering to help in developing solutions to increase revenue and improve Member Experience.

Utilize machine learning for developing next generation of predictive models for targeted business solutions. Support the team in application of Text Mining to mine Voice of Customer data. Develop supervised / unsupervised algorithms, Big Data pipelines for making business processes efficient.

At Evernorth, interns will get a chance to work with a variety of large datasets including pharmacy and medical claims transactions, member information, voice call transcripts, survey data, web log data, etc.

• Previous project examples:
  • Develop Next Generation Supervised Machine Learning Clinical models to predict Medical Non-Adherence
  • Training of call classification unsupervised topic models using big data platforms such as Spark and Hadoop
  • Leverage state of the art NLP Algorithms for detection of personal health information (PHI) entities within free text comments to automatically de-identify natural language
  • Modularize the entity-based feature engineering code base on Hadoop to leverage big data technologies such as Pyspark and Spark SQL.

Qualifications

• Candidates working towards master's degrees or a PhD in quantitative disciplines such as Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Econometrics, Finance, Engineering, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Information Systems, Computational Linguistics or related quantitative disciplines or other similar degree
• Excellent ability to query large datasets using ANSI SQL/HIVE SQL and working with relational databases
• Proficient programming skills either in SAS, R, or Python
• Proficient in Basic Probability and Statistics
• Preference given to students with 3.0 GPA or above with demonstrated proficiency in quantitative subjects.

Additional Experience Required

• Proficient with one or more quantitative data analysis languages such as R, Python
• Demonstrated coursework / real world application of analytical methods such as Regression, Naïve-Bayes, Decision trees, experimental designs, support vector machines, machine learning and text mining, Natural Language Processing
• Proficiency with relational database concepts and SQL preferred
• Proficiency in data manipulation, cleansing and interpretation
• Experience working in distributed computing and Big Data Technologies like Hive, Spark, Scala, HDFS
• Experience with visualization tools like Tableau, Shiny, ggplot, Matplotlib
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite

Additional Information

• Location: This role can work from home anywhere in US

• Schedule: You must be available to work 40 hours/week for 10-12 weeks beginning May 22, 2023. Working hours are Monday - Friday

• Compensation: For this position, we anticipate offering an hourly rate between $28.00 and $36.00 an hour depending on relevant factors, including major and year of study.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives. What difference will you make?

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

Cigna has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.