Principal AI Architect
CVS Health2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Aetna Technology’s AI reference architectures for model serving, multi-model orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation across AWS-primary and multicloud infrastructure.
- Define agentic architecture, including orchestration contracts, domain agents, reusable skills layers, and API/MCP integration patterns.
- Create and maintain paved-road golden patterns for building, serving, and evaluating models and agents.
- Embed responsible-AI guardrails, evaluation, safety controls, and sensitive-data protections including PHI into AI platforms.
- Define model benchmarking, selection, retesting, instrumentation, usage telemetry, labor-redeployment signals, and AI ROI measurement.
- Partner with platform and finance teams on cost-aware AI architecture and unit economics.
- Author automated AI standards and governance gates, contribute to architecture reviews and technology radar input, and evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and agentic tooling.
- Translate architecture trade-offs for senior leaders, coach Solution Architects and senior engineers, and influence strategic vendors and platform teams without direct reports.
Requirements
- 12+ years of technology experience with deep, hands-on AI/ML platform and solution architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale.
- Expert command of model serving, multi-model orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation on cloud platforms, with AWS as the primary platform and GCP/Azure familiarity preferred.
- Demonstrated ownership of AI reference architectures and paved-road or golden-path patterns for model and agent development.
- Hands-on experience designing agentic systems, including orchestration, tool or skill layers, and API/MCP integration patterns.
- Strong grounding in responsible AI, model evaluation, and guardrail design.
- Track record of driving technical outcomes through influence and design authority as an individual contributor.
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries is preferred.
- Familiarity with FinOps, cost-aware AI architecture, AI ROI and adoption instrumentation, infrastructure-as-code, and automated policy or guardrail enforcement is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other well-being resources based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target.
- Application window is anticipated to close on December 31, 2026.
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About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.