Principal AI Engineer

Cotiviti is a healthcare technology company seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of an agentic framework and centralized AI platform. The role owns the technical architecture for the Risk Adjustment Coding Agent, develops explainable clinical AI capabilities, establishes platform governance and evaluation frameworks, and mentors engineering teams while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable agentic solutions for diverse use cases
• Leverage a broad stack of Open-Source AI technologies to build and maintain a centralized AI platform with unified APIs for cross-functional team access and build various types of agents
• Work with Product Engineers to integrate AI agents into customer-facing applications and internal tools
• Lead technical discussions, mentor junior engineers, and help set the technical vision for the AI platform roadmap
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements across the software development lifecycle
• Optimize performance of AI-powered workloads across compute and storage layers using cloud-native and open-source solutions
• Conduct performance analysis and capacity planning to ensure platform scalability
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting**
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation