Machine Learning Engineer

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Start Date: Can vary depending on candidate availability

Locations: CVS Health follows a hybrid work model providing office-based colleagues the ability to flex between working in the office and working from home based on the work you need to accomplish. Various locations available and will be confirmed during conversations with the recruiter.

Work visa sponsorship is available for this role. This includes participation in Curricular Practical Training (CPT), Optional Practical Training (OPT), and F-1 Visa programs.

Who we are

We are Americas leading health solutions company delivering care in ways no one else can. Our purpose is simple and clear: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.

Analytics & Behavior Change is an innovation engine supporting the entire CVS Health organization (Aetna health care business, retail, and pharmacy services) by embedding deep insights into key decision processes and focusing on our biggest, most complex problems. We partner with business leaders throughout the organization using advanced analytics tools, modeling, and machine learning to generate insights by using data to create meaningful impact. Were focused on creating new opportunities that drive change across the enterprise in areas such as:

Customer experience and behavior change

Clinical trial recruitment and engagement

Digital health

Provider efficiency and effectiveness

Patient safety

Health care cost savings

Clinical services/care management

Fraud, waste, and abuse detection/prevention

We are inspired to make a difference through data by making health care human-centered and connecting people to the information they need to feel the joy of achieving their best health. Our opportunities in Data Science and Data Engineering are designed to enhance your personal and professional growth and build the skills that lead to success. Analytics & Behavior Change has the feel of a startup within one of the nations largest companies, and were looking for people who are motivated by solving tough challenges to join us in transforming health care….one line of code at a time.

What you will do

This position lies within the Analytics Engineering vertical. Analytics Engineering is the engine that powers A&BC through the development of production data and ML pipelines. This position will:

Identify opportunities related to the data science lifecycle and develop solutions

Lead the development of a Python package for data scientists, which will also be open-sourced

Embrace a product and systems mindset when developing solutions at scale

Work cross-functionally with data scientists, data engineers, and leadership

Use data to inform strategic and design decision making in addition to measuring performance and outcomes to demonstrate efficacy

Required Qualifications

1 – 3 of experience programming with Python, SQL, and Git

Experience developing in a cloud environment (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)

Applicable coursework in data structures, statistics/probability theory, or algorithm design

Preferred Qualifications

An understanding of machine learning engineering principles such as distributed/parallel computing paradigms and advanced data structures

An understanding of experiment design, MLOps, and continual learning principles

Familiarity with modern libraries such as Dask, Ray, Arrow, and Rapids

Experience developing Python packages as an open-source developer/contributor

Preferred cloud environment experience with Azure and/or GCP

Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Prior domain experience working either in healthcare, supply chain, or retail operations

Education

Currently pursuing a Master’s degree program with an expected graduation date between September 2024 and August 2025

Preferred majors include Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related STEM discipline.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$72,100.00 – $173,040.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health (https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 10/25/2024

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

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.