[Hiring] Senior Generative AI Scientist I @Cotiviti

Role Description

The Sr Gen AI Data Scientist I - Generative AI will apply knowledge and experience to real world problems and seek to utilize their skills to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve health quality and outcomes. With access to dedicated on premise and cloud based big data solutions, the team can work with a vast amount of structured and unstructured data including claims, membership, physician demographics, medical records and others to begin to solve some of the most pressing healthcare issues of our time.

A Data Scientist at Cotiviti will be given the opportunity to work directly with a team of healthcare professionals including analysts, clinicians, coding specialists, auditors and innovators to set aggressive goals and execute on them with the team. This is for an ambitious technologist, with the flexibility and personal drive to succeed in a dynamic environment where they are judged based on their direct impact to business outcomes.

Please note: We are currently hiring multiple positions at various levels for our Artificial Intelligence teams. Please use the chart below as a guide for the amount of experience required for each level, and apply to the req(s) that are most appropriate for your level of experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver solutions that help clients identify payment integrity issues, reduce the cost of healthcare processes, or improve the quality of healthcare outcomes.
• Work as part of a team and be individually responsible for the delivery of value associated with your projects.
• Follow processes and practices to incorporate models into our machine learning platform for production execution and monitoring.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to discover solutions to business problems.
• Work with key stakeholders within Research and Development and Operations to assess potential value and risks associated with business problems.
• Develop an exploratory data analysis approach to verify initial hypotheses associated with potential AI/ML use cases.
• Document approach, thinking, and results to allow collaboration with other data scientists.
• Prepare final trained model and develop a validation test set for QA.
• Work with production operations to deploy models into production and support monitoring of model performance.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions to bring new insights and technologies to the team.
• Participate in design sessions to continuously develop and improve the Cotiviti machine learning platform.
• Provide End to End value-based solutions, including data pipeline, model creation, and application for end user consumption.
• Complete all responsibilities outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science/Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research covering Advanced Statistics, Machine learning and AI.
• Experience with the latest techniques in natural language processing including transformers, fine-tuning LLMs, measuring/benchmarking and deploying LLMs with tools such as HuggingFace, Langchain, LLAMA/Mistral and OpenAI, vector databases.
• 3+ years of hands-on data science/AI experience, using typical machine learning and data science tools including pandas, scikit-learn, keras, nltk, and TensorFlow/PyTorch, GPU.
• Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience working with Apache Spark™ and large-scale distributed datasets.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences is a plus.
• Passion for collaboration, learn it all mindset and driving value with AI.

Requirements

• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate as a team with a sense of urgency.
• Professional with ability to properly handle confidential information.
• Value-driven, understanding that success is based on the impact of your work rather than its complexity or the level of effort.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work within a matrixed organization.
• Proficiency in all required skills and competencies above.
• Communicating with others and teamwork.
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Flexibility to work with global teams as well as geographically dispersed US based teams.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Must be able to provide high-speed internet access/connectivity and office setup and maintenance.
• Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area.

Benefits

• Base compensation ranges from $125,000 to $150,000 per year, determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs.
• Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• 401(k) savings plans.
• Paid family leave.
• 9 paid holidays per year.
• 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti.

Company Description

Since this job will be based remotely, all interviews will be conducted virtually.

Date of posting: 04/1/2026. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis. We anticipate that the application window will close on 07/1/2026, but the application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.