Opportunities for technologists at the CFPB

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is working to be a leader in building technical capabilities to address transformative technologies. The CFPB offers two tracks (a ‘Regulate Tech and AI’ track and a ‘Technology and Innovation’ track) for skilled technologists who are passionate about using their skills to ensure consumer financial services are fair, transparent, and competitive. We regularly seek technical experts to join our team.

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Regulate Tech and AI

Advanced technologies and automated systems are changing how existing financial products and services work or creating entirely new ones. Technologists in this focus area work alongside attorneys and policy experts to hold companies accountable for the misuse of technology and ensure the marketplace is fair for all Americans. As a technologist, you can apply your technical expertise to examine the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence in lending, ensure compliance with federal laws, identify deceptive dark patterns, and more.

Our technologists can be experts in any of the following areas:

• Product design and user experience - Experience understanding the needs, behaviors, and attitudes of users and applying modern design techniques to the design and development of products or services. Experience with how certain UX techniques can be harmful to users. History of analyzing data about users through various methods such as surveys, interviews, and usability testing.
• Research, Tech Policy, Investigative Research - Expertise in public policy, tech policy, and/or digital markets. Experience monitoring markets and developing environmental analyses to understand and summarize economic, social, and financial product research on issues affecting consumers' everyday decision-making.
• Engineering - Expertise with front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineering, DevOps, modern development process, architecture, and/or security. Knowledge of programming languages, such Python, SQL, R, Java, JS, Go, Scala, C, C++, Julia, or MatLab. Experience spotting vulnerabilities like identity theft, cyber fraud, and system breaches.
• Data science and strategy – Experience examining large datasets using scripting languages and computational languages (e.g., Python, R, SQL). Ability to apply expertise to matters involving data privacy, AI/ML, algorithmic discrimination, and secure data systems.
• Product management - Expertise in overseeing product-related activities along every stage of the product lifecycle - product development, product strategy, product growth and maturity, building roadmaps and feature definition, etc. Expertise using agile or lean methods to align cross-functional teams around a shared vision, strategy and user needs.

Relevant positions

The following positions will be available soon. For more information about the qualifications for each position, please refer to the job postings once they’re published or email technologists@cfpb.gov. You can also join our mailing list to be notified when this job is available.

• Technologist (Analyst, CN 40-52) – Support investigatory teams through data analysis, research, outreach with industry experts and consumers, and other CFPB stakeholders.
• Technologist (Associate, CN-53) – Work on small, cross-functional teams to perform investigative research and think strategically about opportunities for the CFPB to prevent consumer harm.
• Technologist (Program, CN-60) – Help lead the work of small, cross-functional investigatory teams and monitor new entrants in financial markets.
• Technologist (Senior, CN-71) – Serve as a principal, technical expert for the agency and partner with leadership to further strategic investigative and policymaking goals.
• Supervisory Technologist (Senior, CN-72) - Serve as a principal, technical expert for an agency and support technologists across a variety of expertise to further strategic investigative and policymaking goals.

Technology and Innovation

Technologists and leaders in this area design and manage the technical infrastructure of a vital government agency, build digital products, protect critical IT assets, and serve millions of Americans. Technologists work in cross-functional agile delivery teams to create innovative products and services. Leaders inspire and motivate team members to manage our resources efficiently and to deliver the Bureau’s important mission. Opportunities will be available for technologists with any of the following expertise:

• Data science, engineering, architecture, and operations
• Data business intelligence and digital analysis
• IT procurement, budget, and asset management
• Product management
• Product design & user experience
• Cybersecurity, zero trust architecture, and identity management
• Privacy

What we’re looking for in our technologists

We want people who are passionate about the CFPB's mission and excited to use their expertise to help the American public. We want people who are curious and can thrive in both structured and ambiguous environments, who love working with their colleagues to sort out hard as well as soft problems, and who are eager to help the government keep pace with the private sector.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, women, minorities, people with disabilities, system-impacted people, veterans, and people of all ages to apply.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

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Review our current openings to find a technical position that’s right for you.

Prepare your federal resume

Government resumes are typically different from private sector norms and can be as long as five pages. Your resume should include a bit more narrative than what you may be accustomed to — tell the story and detail how you meet the required specialized experience. For example, don’t just list your tech stack or design approaches, but say what you did with them and what the outcomes were. We want to see your full breadth and depth of experience right away as we consider you through the application process.

If something is listed under “minimum qualifications required,” or “specialized experience” your application must demonstrate that you have that experience. It is also important that you do not make assumptions about what qualifies. If the announcement says a particular type of experience is required, do not list a similar but different type of experience without explaining how it meets the qualification. If you have that exact experience, always state it.

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