AI Engineer
Company: CVS Health
Location: Albany, NY (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-11-14
About this role
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. 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.
Position Summary
We're hiring an AI Engineer to design, build and deploy AI-powered features. You'll work closely with senior engineers, data scientists and product teams on production systems that use large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and machine learning (ML) pipelines. The work covers prompt engineering, model evaluation, data preparation and integrating models into scalable services through APIs. It's a hands-on role with strong mentorship, suited to someone who has shipped real software and wants to grow in applied AI.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ML engineering or a related technical role
- Strong Python skills and experience with ML libraries such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers or scikit-learn
- Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs and frameworks, including RAG and vector search
- Experience building and integrating REST APIs, with working knowledge of SQL, Git and Docker
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and monitoring models on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Experience fine-tuning models with techniques such as LoRA or PEFT
- Familiarity with model serving and MLOps tools (e.g., vLLM, MLflow, Weights & Biases)
- Experience building LLM evaluation frameworks, guardrails or agent/tool-use workflows
- Understanding of responsible AI principles, including bias, safety and data privacy
- Contributions to open-source AI projects or a portfolio of personal projects
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