Principal Application Security Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems
CVS Health9 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development and enforcement of application and AI security policies, standards, guardrails, and secure-by-design practices.
- Establish secure design patterns for AI agents covering prompt management, tool invocation, memory handling, autonomy boundaries, and escalation controls.
- Architect and review secure designs for LLM, foundation model, RAG, agentic, and tool-using systems.
- Define identity, authorization, data access, observability, and responsible data-use controls for agentic environments.
- Lead threat modeling, abuse and misuse analysis, security testing, risk assessments, and secure design reviews for AI-enabled systems.
- Provide technical leadership during application and AI security incidents and improve controls based on operational learnings.
- Influence enterprise security strategy, advise senior leadership, mentor senior and principal engineers, and shape the long-term AI security roadmap.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and securing large-scale applications and platforms.
- 7+ years of application security experience, including threat modeling, secure design, and vulnerability management.
- 7+ years of programming experience with one or more of Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, or Go.
- 5+ years developing and securing AI and ML workloads, including recent generative AI and agentic workload experience.
- 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and/or GCP and modern application architectures.
- 3+ years of experience with containerized, serverless, and microservice-based architectures.
- Preferred qualifications include securing AI agents, RAG pipelines, and tool-using LLM systems; leading enterprise-scale security initiatives; familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI, and emerging AI security standards; integrating controls into CI/CD pipelines; knowledge of PCI, HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST, and CSA; enterprise-level influence; and security research or open-source contributions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with a high school diploma and 4 years of relevant experience accepted as an alternative.
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 September 21, 2026.
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About CVS Health
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