Technology Strategy Technical Lead
Freddie Mac3 days ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$149k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for the architecture, design, and delivery of FredAI capabilities and production GenAI applications.
- Design and implement reusable reference architectures, SDKs, shared services, APIs, and integration patterns for multiple product teams.
- Implement evaluation, testing, LLMOps, offline benchmarks, regression suites, observability, tracing, incident response, and rollback practices.
- Engineer permission-aware solutions covering identity, entitlements, data boundaries, privacy, human approvals, audit logging, and responsible AI policies.
- Define model and platform integration patterns including model routing, structured outputs, caching, rate limiting, fallback strategies, token budgets, circuit breakers, and cost management.
- Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, data, model risk, cloud engineering, platform, and business teams to deliver governed technical solutions.
- Provide technical direction, code and design reviews, mentoring, and hands-on problem solving for GenAI, software, platform, and quality engineers.
- Own availability, latency, throughput, task completion, developer productivity, and cost-per-outcome targets, driving corrective action when needed.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of software, data, or machine learning engineering experience, including 3+ years providing technical leadership for complex engineering teams or initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Proven experience designing and delivering production GenAI or AI/ML systems at enterprise scale with recent hands-on coding and technical design experience.
- Strong proficiency in cloud-native engineering using Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Java, along with APIs, microservices, containers, distributed systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on knowledge of prompting, RAG, embeddings, vector search, orchestration, tool calling, agents, structured outputs, and model evaluation.
- Experience designing for security, privacy, identity, data governance, resiliency, auditability, and responsible AI in a regulated enterprise environment.
- Ability to influence engineering, security, data, risk, and business partners and translate emerging GenAI capabilities into practical governed solutions.
Benefits
- Full-time, exempt position with a comprehensive total rewards package and market-leading benefits.
- Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.
- Annualized market-based base salary range of $149,000–$223,000.
- Freddie Mac provides reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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About Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages from lenders, securitizes them into mortgage-backed securities, and guarantees timely payments to investors, providing liquidity for U.S. housing. It operates across single-family and multifamily markets, earning guarantee fees and investment income. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, it remains under Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship, supporting affordable homeownership and rental housing.