Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Lead Decision Scientist” (Data Scientists) in MA: $131k–$181k, median $139k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 4 certified filings for “Lead Decision Scientist” (Data Scientists) in MA: $131k–$181k, median $139k. Most were filed at wage level II (75%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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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.
POSITION SUMMARY
CVS Health is seeking a Senior Data Scientist - GenAI to join the Lumina team, the organization behind CVS Health's enterprise knowledge and agentic AI platform. The Senior Data Scientist - GenAI will play a critical role in advancing the intelligence, scalability, reliability, and business impact of AI-powered experiences used across the enterprise. This position combines deep expertise in applied data science, machine learning, information retrieval, and Generative AI with strong software engineering capabilities to deliver production-grade solutions at scale. The Senior Data Scientist - GenAI will lead initiatives that improve how enterprise knowledge is discovered, interpreted, and utilized through advanced AI techniques, intelligent retrieval systems, and autonomous workflows. The Senior Data Scientist - GenAI will leverage experimentation, statistical methods, machine learning, and large language models to drive measurable improvements in relevance, accuracy, user satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
As a Senior Data Scientist - GenAI, you will contribute across the full lifecycle of AI product development, from research and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, optimization, and continuous innovation. The Senior Data Scientist - GenAI will collaborate closely with software engineers, platform engineers, architects, product managers, and business leaders to deliver enterprise-scale AI capabilities that solve complex business challenges and accelerate decision-making throughout CVS Health.
The Senior Data Scientist - GenAI will balance applied data science and machine learning responsibilities with hands-on software development, ensuring AI capabilities can be operationalized, integrated, measured, and continuously improved within production environments. Approximately two-thirds of the position focuses on applied data science, machine learning, Generative AI, experimentation, and AI evaluation, while one-third focuses on software engineering, platform integration, API development, and production implementation. Lumina is CVS Health's internal enterprise knowledge and agentic AI platform. It grounds AI responses in curated internal content while enforcing access controls through Azure Entra security groups. Lumina delivers capabilities through web applications, Slack, Microsoft Teams, embedded agents, APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. The platform also enables secure interoperability with enterprise systems including Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Figma, Airtable, Slack, and Microsoft 365.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• GenAI & Retrieval Systems: Design, build, and evaluate retrieval and generation components (embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, prompting, agent behavior) for an enterprise RAG and agentic AI platform.
• Evaluation & Applied ML: Develop and maintain evaluation methods for retrieval quality (e.g., Recall@k, MRR, nDCG) at scale and response quality (faithfulness, citation accuracy, abstention), using production traces and human validated judgments.
• Data Analysis: Analyze usage, performance, and quality data to inform product and modeling decisions, and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.
• Build Agents: Create and orchestrate agents to assist in the creation and automation of the platform, internal proces
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