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At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.\nPosition Summary\nAs a Principal AI Engineer, you will set the technical direction for how we design, build, and operate enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic AI systems in a regulated healthcare environment. You will be a hands-on technical leader who works across data science, clinical, product, security, privacy, legal, and business teams to turn strategic priorities into trustworthy, scalable, production AI solutions. You will report to the Lead Director on the Commercial team in our Aetna Technology organization.\nWhat You Will Do\nArchitect and deliver production-grade GenAI and agentic AI solutions, including RAG, vector search, model integration, tool orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation across AWS and/or GCP.\nBuild scalable, cloud-native AI systems using serverless/event-driven architectures, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and modern software engineering practices.\nOwn the production AI lifecycle, from experimentation and deployment through monitoring, observability, performance, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.\nEstablish secure and responsible AI practices that address privacy, security, governance, auditability, model risk, and appropriate human oversight in a regulated environment.\nDefine AI architecture, standards, and engineering best practices for areas such as agent orchestration, RAG, tool/MCP integrations, evaluation, and enterprise AI adoption.\nPartner across product, engineering, data, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and business teams to translate strategic needs into scalable AI solutions and influence technical direction.\nProvide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, architecture guidance, build-vs-buy decisions, and clear technical documentation.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in solution architecture or system design.\n5+ years building large-scale microservices and APIs (Node.js, TypeScript, Java, or Python).\n5+ years of hands-on AWS and/or GCP experience (serverless, event-driven, CI/CD, AI/ML).\nHands-on experience with AWS Bedrock (models, agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, tuning, evaluation) or GCP Vertex AI (Model Garden, Agent Builder, Vector Search, Pipelines, Tuning), or equivalent.\nProduction experience with agentic AI frameworks, RAG architectures, and vector databases.\nStrong Python skills for AI/ML engineering.\nDemonstrated experience delivering AI/ML systems in regulated environments with security, privacy, and audit requirements.\nTrack record of influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.\nPreferred Qualifications\nHealthcare, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience, including HIPAA and PHI handling.\nExperience with Vertex AI Generative AI Studio, vector search orchestration, and agent capabilities.\nExperience with LLM evaluation tooling and observability platforms (e.g., LangSmith, Arize, Langfuse, Ragas, or cloud-native equivalents).\nExperience with MCP servers and tool integration, agent-to-agent patterns, and agent memory design.\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK), containers, and Kubernetes.\nExperience with fine-tuning techniques (LoRA/PEFT, distillation) and open-weight models.\nFamiliarity with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001) and model risk management.\nAgile/SAFe experience in large enterprises.\nCloud certifications (AWS, GCP, or Azure).\nPublications, patents, or open-source contributions in AI/ML.\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience (High School diploma + 4 years of relevant experience).\nPay Range\nThe typical pay range for this role is:\n$144,200.00 - $288,400.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. \nOur people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.\nGreat benefits for great people\nWe take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.\nThis full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. 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