Principal Engineer, AI Platforms for Healthcare Data

CVS Health; California; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is building a platform that turns clinical, claims and document data into insight for patients, providers and payers. As Principal Engineer, design the Google Cloud platform and lead AI agent usage, governance and scalable data systems in a regulated environment.

You will guide architecture, write production code, and establish practices for AI-assisted development and operations, while ensuring secure, auditable systems and clear communication to executives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale batch and streaming data platforms.
• Hands-on coding in Python and Go/Java/C#.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud.
• Production ML/LLM systems experience.
• Extensive use of AI agents across design, development, testing and code review.
• Creative, collaborative problem solving in ambiguous environments.
• Experience in a regulated environment with audits.
• Strong written communication and diagramming for executives.

Responsibilities

• Design the platform architecture on Google Cloud with leadership; spans data, identity, FHIR, data products, LLM and rules engines.
• Write production code for critical platform components and reference implementations.
• Lead AI-assisted development practices, guardrails, reviews and pilots.
• Design AI-assisted operations for incident triage and cost management.
• Automate audit trails, access controls and governance across systems.
• Explain complex systems clearly to executives and key stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go/Java/C#

Google Cloud

AI/LLM

AI agents usage

Security & governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Vertex AI

VPC Service Controls

Job description

CVS Health is building a platform that turns clinical, claims and document data into insight for patients, providers and payers. As Principal Engineer, design the Google Cloud platform and lead AI agent usage, governance and scalable data systems in a regulated environment.

You will guide architecture, write production code, and establish practices for AI-assisted development and operations, while ensuring secure, auditable systems and clear communication to executives.