The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- McLean, VA
- Posted
- Sep 2
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.
Position Overview:
This program is a ten-week internship crafted to provide interns with the opportunity to gain outstanding experience working across a broad spectrum of Freddie Mac’s key capital markets desks. The key focus is to develop future portfolio managers by providing real world training experiences with the goal of learning the full mortgage capital markets life cycle while also providing desk-specific knowledge. Interns will get a chance to learn, be mentored by and work alongside best-in-class professionals on various desks to analyze and support our mission of Making Home Possible.
What you'd do
- Gain knowledge of how Freddie Mac prices its business through upfront loan pricing, pool securitization and unsecured debt funding through working with one of the front-end capital markets desks
- Learning how Freddie Mac manages its credit risk, through rotating on one of the securitized products related desks, including STACR, ACIS, Servicing Capital Markets and Loan Portfolio Management and Structuring
- Fixed income valuation and financial transaction analysis
- Expertise in the U.S. Economy/Fixed Income markets
- Knowledge of primary and secondary mortgage financial system
- Quantitative abilities (e.g., Advanced Excel, SQL, SAS, Python, R)
- Professional networking skills and opportunities within the company and industry
- Mentorships to help guide your career
- Social community of analysts and fellow interns
What they want
- Pursuing bachelor's degree, preferably but not only in Economics, Finance, Business, Statistics, Engineering and/or Math
- Availability to begin internship in May/June 2027
- Graduating in either Fall 2027 or Spring 2028
- Ability to learn quickly and pick up new skills/concepts
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Microsoft Office skills required; Additional quantitative skills preferred
- Must be a great teammate and able to work collaboratively
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced trading floor environment
- Attention to detail, exercise sound judgment and can handle sensitive information with discretion
- Starts
- 2026-08-24