Principal Engineer, AI-Powered Clinical Data Platform

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

Job summary

CVS Health in Massachusetts seeks a Principal Engineer to design and build a data platform on Google Cloud, leading AI-assisted development and operations. You will influence architecture, governance and security while delivering scalable data and ML capabilities for patients, providers and payers.

The role demands leadership, strong coding skills in Python and at least one of Go/Java/C#, and experience in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams at the staff or principal level.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale batch and streaming data platforms.
• Hands-on coding in Python and Go/Java/C#.
• Deep experience with Google Cloud (GKE, BigQuery, Spanner, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI).
• Production experience with ML/LLM systems, including retrieval, extraction, evaluation and serving at scale.
• Extensive use of AI agents across design, development, testing and code review.
• Creative, collaborative problem solving under changing requirements.
• Experience in regulated environments with audits.
• Strong written communication and presenting to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Platform design: design the platform architecture on Google Cloud with engineering leadership.
• Engineering: write production code for critical platform components.
• AI-assisted development: lead practices for using AI coding agents and evaluations.
• AI-assisted operations: design incident triage, automation, and cost management.
• Compliance and controls: automate audit evidence collection and governance.
• Communication: explain systems to executives and stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Batch & streaming data

Python

Go/Java/C#

Google Cloud (GKE BigQuery Spanner)

ML/LLM systems

AI agent usage

Problem solving & ambiguity

Regulatory compliance & audits

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Master's preferred

Job description

CVS Health in Massachusetts seeks a Principal Engineer to design and build a data platform on Google Cloud, leading AI-assisted development and operations. You will influence architecture, governance and security while delivering scalable data and ML capabilities for patients, providers and payers.

The role demands leadership, strong coding skills in Python and at least one of Go/Java/C#, and experience in regulated environments.