Principal Application Security Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems at CVS Health | NY, US | Rezi

Principal Application Security Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems at CVS Health

Principal Application Security Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems

CVS Health · NY, US

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Principal Application Security Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems

CVS Health · NY, US

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About the 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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and enforcement of application and AI security policies, standards, and guardrails, embedding security-by-design across both traditional and AI-driven systems.
  • Establish secure design patterns for AI agent frameworks, covering prompt management, tool invocation, memory handling, autonomy boundaries, and escalation controls.
  • Promote organization-wide awareness of AI-specific risks such as model misuse, prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe agent behavior.
  • Serve as the principal SME for securing AI-enabled applications and agentic system architectures.
  • Architect and review secure designs for systems leveraging LLMs/foundation models, autonomous and semi-autonomous agents, RAG pipelines, and tool‑using or decision‑making workflows.
  • Define identity, authorization, data access, and observability controls specific to agentic environments while partnering closely with AI platform, product, and data teams to ensure responsible AI delivery.
  • Influence engineering and product teams to integrate secure engineering practices and align security with compliance, privacy, and responsible AI initiatives.
  • Advise senior leadership on AI security implications, architectural decisions, and long-term strategy while shaping roadmaps that anticipate emerging AI threats and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead advanced security testing and risk assessments for AI-enabled systems, including threat modeling of agent workflows, abuse/misuse analysis, and secure design reviews of AI pipelines.
  • Evaluate and guide adoption of new AI security tools, ensuring protections maintain confidentiality, integrity, availability, and responsible data use.
  • Provide senior technical leadership during incidents involving application or AI systems, guiding response strategies for misuse, data exposure, and autonomous failures.
  • Translate operational learnings into improved security architecture, controls, and system resilience.
  • Mentor senior and principal engineers to elevate security maturity across the organization.
  • Contribute to research and evaluation of emerging AI security practices and play a key role in shaping the long-term application and AI security roadmap, advocating for security as a strategic accelerator for AI adoption.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and securing large-scale applications and platforms.
  • 7+ years of expertise in application security, including threat modeling, secure design, and vulnerability management.
  • 7+ years of programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, or Go.
  • 5+ years of experience of developing and securing AI and ML workloads, with recent experience in generative AI and agentic workloads.
  • 5+ years of experience public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and modern application architectures.
  • 3+ years of experience with containerized, serverless, and microservice-based architectures.
  • Hands-on experience securing AI agents, RAG pipelines, and tool-using LLM systems.
  • Proven ability to lead complex security initiatives from concept through enterprise-scale adoption.
  • Familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI principles, and emerging AI security standards.
  • Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines for AI and application workloads.
  • Strong understanding of compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST, CSA).
  • Experience influencing security strategy beyond a single team, including enterprise or platform-level impact.
  • Contributions to security research, open-source projects, or industry communities.
  • Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Skills

  • Application Security
  • AI Security
  • Threat Modeling
  • Secure Design
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C#
  • Go
  • AI
  • ML
  • Generative AI
  • Agentic Workloads
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Containerized Architectures
  • Serverless Architectures
  • Microservice-based Architectures
  • AI Agents
  • RAG Pipelines
  • LLM Systems
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • PCI
  • HIPAA
  • NIST
  • HITRUST
  • CSA

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and securing large-scale applications and platforms
  • 7+ years of expertise in application security
  • 7+ years of programming experience
  • 5+ years of experience developing and securing AI and ML workloads
  • 5+ years of experience public cloud platforms
  • 3+ years of experience with containerized, serverless, and microservice-based architectures

Education Level

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)

Salary/Compensations

  • $144,200.00 - $288,400.00

Benefits

  • CVS Health bonus
  • Commission or short-term incentive program
  • Equity award program
  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement savings options
  • Wellness programs

About the Company

  • Our 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.

Equal Opportunity

  • Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.