Principal, AI Solutions

Fannie Mae; Washington; On-site; USD 200,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Fannie Mae is seeking a Principal, AI Solutions to lead a forward-deployed AI team that turns enterprise AI capabilities into measurable business value. The role sits at the intersection of platform, product, and delivery, embedding with business leaders to rapidly co-build solutions.

You will drive enterprise AI productivity tooling strategy, enablement, and co-built priority use cases with a multidisciplinary team of AI solution leads, engineers, and domain specialists.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience across AI/ML, data platforms, or advanced analytics, with increasing leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience leading customer-facing or forward-deployed solution teams (FDE, solutions engineering, applied AI, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, high-stakes enterprise solutions in regulated or risk-sensitive environments
• People leadership experience, including coaching, and performance mgmt.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into deployable solutions
• Executive-level 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

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact, forward-deployed AI solutions team delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Co-design and deliver high-priority AI use cases with senior executives.
• Support enterprise AI productivity tooling strategy and enablement across engineering and operations.
• Establish standards and reference implementations to scale AI capabilities across the enterprise.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence Ethics

Cloud Platform

Data Science

Innovation

Leadership

Machine Learning

Project Management

Software Development

Team Management

Technical Architecture

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

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 high‑impact, forward‑deployed 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 co‑building 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 co‑built 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, co‑design, and deliver high‑priority AI use cases. Lead hands‑on solution delivery—rapid 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, AI‑assisted 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 real‑world 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 customer‑facing or forward‑deployed solution teams (FDE, solutions engineering, applied AI, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, high‑stakes enterprise solutions in regulated or risk‑sensitive environments
• People leadership experience, including coaching, and performance mgmt..
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into deployable solutions
• Executive‑level 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

200,000.00 - 269,000.00

JR2676

Qualifications

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

Education:

Bachelor’s Level Degree (Required)

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.

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.

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 employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

Requisition compensation:

200000

to

269000