Technical Lead, GenAI & Automation Engineering (Risk Engineering)
Freddie Mac24 hours ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$146k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable GenAI applications, AI agents, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, vector search solutions, and multimodal AI integrations.
- Develop Python-based microservices and APIs and lead automation framework design for production-grade solutions.
- Embed risk, control, governance, regulatory, and compliance mechanisms directly into GenAI workflows through control-as-code practices.
- Design feature engineering and data pipelines, establish feedback loops, and support continuous system improvement.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, monitoring, performance, testing, and responsible AI practices.
- Collaborate with Risk, Security, Governance, engineering, and product teams while providing technical leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 8–10+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years of AI/ML or GenAI engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with LangChain or similar frameworks.
- Experience building LLM-based applications using RAG and prompt engineering.
- Experience with APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- Experience with MLOps/DataOps pipelines, observability, and monitoring tools.
- Familiarity with vector databases, modern AI architectures, LLM evaluation, guardrails, AI safety, AI governance, model risk, and responsible AI frameworks.
- Experience implementing risk, control, or compliance requirements in technical systems.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and GitHub Copilot.
- Ability to deliver robust, well-tested, production-ready solutions and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
Benefits
- Full-time, exempt position.
- Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package with market-leading benefit programs.
- Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.
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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.