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Principal, AI Solutions

Fannie Mae


Job Location:

Reston, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

As Principal AI Solutions you will lead a highimpact forwarddeployed AI solutions team responsible for turning enterprise AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of platform product and delivery operating as the last mile of AI value creation across Fannie Mae. This team is embedded with business leaders rapidly cobuilding solutions and feeding learnings back into the AI platform core AI capabilities and enterprise standards.

You will support enterprise AI productivity tooling strategy and enablement and cobuilt priority use cases working with multidisciplinary team of AI solution leads engineers and domain specialists.

  • Co-built Enterprise Priority Use-cases: Partner directly with COO leadership and senior executives to identify codesign and deliver highpriority AI use cases. Lead handson solution deliveryrapid prototyping pilots and scaled deployments. Act as a trusted AI delivery partner to the business balancing speed with enterprise rigor.
  • Enterprise AI Productivity & Enablement: Support enterprise rollout adoption and value realization of AI productivity tools Coding Agents AIassisted development tools. Drive measurable productivity improvements across engineering operations and business teams.
  • AI Capabilities: Lead the AI solutions layer translating platform capabilities into repeatable enterprise patterns. Establish standards best practices and reference implementations that scale across the enterprise.
  • AI Platform Feedback Loop: Serve as a critical feedback channel between realworld use cases and the AI platform team. Translate solution learnings into platform and tooling requirements.

There is1 openingfor this position which can be based in our Reston VA Plano TX or Washington DC office.

THE EXPERIENCEYOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

  • 8 years of experience across AI/ML data platforms or advanced analytics with increasing leadership responsibility
  • Proven experience leading customerfacing or forwarddeployed solution teams (FDE solutions engineering applied AI or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex highstakes enterprise solutions in regulated or risksensitive environments
  • People leadership experience including coaching and performance mgmt..
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into deployable solutions
  • Executivelevel communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Deep understanding of AI productivity tools LLMs and automation patterns
  • Ability to balance speed governance and scalability in solution delivery

Desired Experiences

  • Experience working with or alongside COO / Operations leadership
  • Familiarity with AI platforms developer tooling and enterprise AI governance
  • Background in financial services housing finance or large regulated firms
  • Experience influencing platform roadmaps through solution delivery insights

Enterprise - Machine Learning Engineer Principal

200000.00 - 269000.00

JR2676

Qualifications

Artificial Intelligence Ethics Cloud Platform Data Science Innovation Leadership Machine Learning (ML) Project Management Software Development Team Management Technical Architecture

Education:

Bachelors Level Degree (Required)

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at most roles employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office -office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.


Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age sexual orientation gender identity/gender expression marital or parental status or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health Life Voluntary Lifestyle and other benefits and perks that enhance an employees physical mental emotional and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:

200000

to

269000

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At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of an inclusive team thriving in an energizing, fle ... View more

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