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Internships and Early Career Opportunities

Your impact starts here

As a college student looking forward to graduation, you know there’s a lot to learn beyond the classroom — more knowledge, new skills, bigger ways to make a positive impact. At Fannie Mae, you can keep learning while working to make housing more affordable across the U.S.

Our competitive internship program and full-time, entry-level positions are designed to support your career development and provide a foundation for success. We provide the resources and experiences to help you turn what you’ve learned into what’s next — and start building a career you’re proud of.

In other words, we’re a pretty great place to work.

Looking for an internship?

Rising college seniors can join our 10-week, paid summer internship program, where you can contribute to meaningful work with supportive colleagues in a Fortune 500 company.

Beyond the day-to-day experience, the program gives you opportunities to grow your professional skills, connect with Fannie Mae leaders and industry experts, and build a network of peers and professionals. Through practical training and engaging speaker series, you’ll gain confidence, broaden your perspective, and build skills that can help get your career off to a great start.

Our internship program could lead to full-time employment at Fannie Mae after graduation.

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Full-time opportunities for graduates

Full-time associates will kick off their Fannie Mae journey with First Year Forward, a comprehensive, year-long development experience designed to accelerate growth, build connections, and set the stage for long-term success. Through curated learning opportunities, cross-functional networking, meaningful social engagement, and mentorship from experienced colleagues, you'll strengthen your business and professional acumen, gain valuable guidance as you navigate the start of your career, and build a powerful foundation for what’s next.

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Full-time Technology

Focusing on technology, finance, analytics, or business, you’ll gain practical experience to advance your career while helping power the future of housing.

Build technical skills through hands-on training in software and DevOps engineering, data engineering, and technology infrastructure. Gain experience with Java, scripting, prompt engineering, AWS, and more while solving high-impact technology challenges.

Learn how to research threats, deploy solutions, leverage automation, and help reduce risk to the company. Through hands-on experience and interaction with leading technology teams, you’ll participate in experiential learning across cybersecurity, AI security, secure solution design, and modern security technologies.

Expand your quantitative and analytical skills through practical experience, training, and meaningful projects. You’ll use data, modeling, AI, and emerging technologies to uncover insights, solve complex problems, and help inform decisions across housing finance.

Develop your understanding of fixed-income and mortgage markets while working with market-facing teams. You’ll build skills in mortgage-backed securities analysis, market valuation, risk modeling, trading analytics, and data-driven decision making while supporting pricing, trading, and investor activities in a fast-paced capital markets environment.

Understand how finance helps shape business decisions across Fannie Mae. You’ll gain exposure to financial modeling, analytics, forecasting, reporting, research, capital management, and more while building broad business knowledge and contributing to strategic decision-making.

Discover accounting at the scale of housing finance. You’ll work across areas such as reporting, accounting operations, controls, SOX/FORM, tax, and the complex transactions behind mortgages while developing a foundation for your career.

See how risk management shapes the mortgage lifecycle from loan acquisition to servicing. Expand your skills in data analysis, policy, and problem-solving while working on business challenges that help manage risk and support sustainable homeownership.

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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.

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