You’ve invested a lot of time and energy in your education. Now you want the chance to make your mark. We offer challenging opportunities for you to learn and grow professionally. In our programs, you’ll be immersed in a culture of continuous improvement, with the goal of changing health care for the better.
Position Summary
This program is an 11-week full-time opportunity that provides real work experience with a team in your business area. You will be aligned to projects to lead or contribute to while also participating in networking, development, and career exploration activities. Our Corporate Interns can apply for future full-time roles during the program and have an increased likelihood to receive an offer for a post-graduation role.
The summer internship program is from May 28 – August 8, 2025.
CVS Health follows a 3 day in office (generally Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) 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. The other 2 days each week will be working remotely from home, office, or another location of your choice.
Our office location for this role will be Hartford, CT. A housing stipend may be provided, based on eligibility, and interns will be given the opportunity to connect with each other prior to the start of the program to coordinate housing if desired. The hourly rate is $23.00, with 40 hours per week, July 4th off (company holiday), and two days of paid leave. Please disregard the range listed below.
Who we are
We are America's 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. At CVS Health, we possess an extensive repository of data that spans over 150 million individuals, providing an unparalleled foundation for ambitious Data Scientists and Engineers. In this role, your work will underpin data driven business decisions and contribute to our mission of delivering the industry’s best data products with a customer first mindset and team-oriented approach.
About the Business Area
Our organization under Aetna shared services advanced tech delivery is supporting the entire Aetna health care business. We have developed “Aetna Insights”, an Observability & Monitoring platform leveraging open-source technologies, open telemetry, machine learning & analytics. We collect and stream application and server telemetry data at real-time from on-premises and cloud environments thereby providing deep insights into application and server health and is a go to platform for incident troubleshooting and day to day system monitoring. We closely partner with application development, infrastructure, and security teams, and we are focused on creating innovation opportunities that drive change across the health care enterprise.
Aetna Tech has the feel of a startup within one of the nation's largest companies, and we're looking for people who are motivated by solving tough challenges to join us in transforming health care. Positions in Aetna IT offer a chance to develop managerial, technical, and professional skills while collaborating with professionals’ enterprise wide.
What you will do
Our team builds “Aetna Insights” by leveraging cloud agnostic and open-source technologies. We automate collection of telemetry data (logs, trace & metrics) using Open telemetry and Open Shift technologies and makes data insights faster, deeper, and more accessible. You will focus on developing machine learning, Analytics and Generative AI solutions.
This is a hands-on technology role where you and your team will be responsible for developing and driving critical initiatives for CVS Health. You will deliver on technology initiatives in a fast-paced organization while building trusted relationships with peer groups and business partners. Your opportunity will be to own a concept, develop a plan and deliver high quality software solutions. You will be able to demonstrate your leadership and independence as you work to enhance customer experience.
Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role. This includes participation in Curricular Practical Training (CPT), Optional Practical Training (OPT), and F-1 Visa programs.
Required Qualifications
- Meet Education Requirements (see Education section)
- Experience designing and building software applications with proficiency in Python & JavaScript
- Experience or familiarity in building and training M/L models using relevant frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
- Strong understanding of software architecture, data structures, statistical concepts, data modeling, and model performance
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership experience (e.g., student organizations, sports, or work-related projects)
- An interest in obtaining full-time position within CVS Health upon graduation
- Internship or work experience in a related field
- Strong communication skills (written & verbal)
- Experience being resourceful and quickly and successfully adapting to change
- Experience encouraging teamwork and a positive environment to improve team effectiveness
- Experience or familiarity with Cloud development - Azure (preferred) or AWS or GCP
- Knowledge of Agentic AI solutions using Gen AI (LLM/RAG) using OpenAI, LangChain,VectorDB etc.
- Familiarity with building CI/CD pipelines, container technologies and databases (SQL and NoSQL)
Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree program with an expected graduation date between December 2025 and August 2026
- Preferred majors include Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, and Data Science
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
Whether in our pharmacies or through our health service offerings, we are pioneering a bold new approach to total health care. As health care innovators, we are making quality care affordable, accessible, simple and seamless. We await your fresh ideas, new perspectives, and the unique contributions you will make to our organization.
This job does not have an application deadline, as CVS Health accepts applications on an ongoing basis.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners.
Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
