Principal AI Engineer
CVS Health1 day ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver production-grade GenAI and agentic AI solutions involving RAG, vector search, model integration, tool orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation.
- Build scalable cloud-native AI systems using serverless and event-driven architectures, APIs, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Own the production AI lifecycle from experimentation and deployment through monitoring, observability, performance management, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Establish secure and responsible AI practices covering privacy, security, governance, auditability, model risk, and human oversight.
- Define AI architecture, standards, and engineering practices for agent orchestration, RAG, tool and MCP integrations, evaluation, and enterprise AI adoption.
- Partner with product, engineering, data, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and business teams to translate strategic needs into scalable AI solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, architecture guidance, build-versus-buy decisions, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years of solution architecture or system design experience.
- 5+ years building large-scale microservices and APIs with Node.js, TypeScript, Java, or Python.
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS and/or GCP experience involving serverless, event-driven systems, CI/CD, and AI/ML.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock or GCP Vertex AI, or equivalent platforms, including models, agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, tuning, or evaluation.
- Production experience with agentic AI frameworks, RAG architectures, and vector databases.
- Strong Python skills for AI/ML engineering.
- Experience delivering AI/ML systems in regulated environments with security, privacy, and audit requirements.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience through a high school diploma and four years of relevant experience.
- Preferred qualifications include healthcare or regulated-industry experience, HIPAA and PHI handling, Vertex AI Generative AI Studio, LLM evaluation and observability tools, MCP and agent integrations, infrastructure-as-code, containers, Kubernetes, fine-tuning, open-weight models, AI governance, Agile/SAFe, cloud certifications, and AI/ML publications, patents, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Full-time benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, subject to eligibility.
- The role is eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target; compensation figures are excluded here.
- The application window is anticipated to close on 11/26/2026.
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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.