Principal GenAI Architect - Healthcare AI

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to define the technical direction for enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic AI systems within a regulated healthcare setting. You will collaborate across data science, clinical, product, security, privacy, legal, and business teams to deliver trustworthy, scalable AI solutions.

As a hands-on technical leader, you will own the AI lifecycle from experiments to production, set standards, and mentor teams while ensuring compliance with privacy, security,

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in solution architecture or system design.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS and/or GCP experience (serverless, event-driven, CI/CD).
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock or Vertex AI (Model Garden, Agent Builder, Vector Search).
• 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.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Architect 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.
• Build scalable, cloud-native AI systems using serverless/event-driven architectures, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and modern software engineering practices.
• Own the production AI lifecycle, from experimentation and deployment through monitoring, observability, performance, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Establish secure and responsible AI practices that address privacy, security, governance, auditability, model risk, and appropriate human oversight in a regulated environment.
• Define AI architecture, standards, and engineering best practices for agent orchestration, RAG, tool/MCP integrations, evaluation, and enterprise AI adoption.
• Partner across product, engineering, data, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and business teams to translate strategic needs into scalable AI solutions and influence technical direction.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, architecture guidance, build-vs-buy decisions, and clear technical documentation.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Microservices & APIs

Python for AI/ML

Regulated environment experience

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

AWS Bedrock

Vertex AI

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Vector databases

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to define the technical direction for enterprise-grade GenAI and agentic AI systems within a regulated healthcare setting. You will collaborate across data science, clinical, product, security, privacy, legal, and business teams to deliver trustworthy, scalable AI solutions.

As a hands-on technical leader, you will own the AI lifecycle from experiments to production, set standards, and mentor teams while ensuring compliance with privacy, security,