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Opportunities for technologists at the CFPB

Use your technical expertise to help detect and prevent unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices in financial markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is hiring recent graduates who are passionate about using their skills to ensure consumer financial services are fair, transparent, and competitive.

The CFPB offers two opportunities for recent graduates: ‘Regulate Tech and AI’ and ‘Build Government Digital Services.’ To qualify, you must have a degree within the last 2 years or intend to graduate within 9 months of applying. Degrees can include associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctorates. They can be professional, vocational, or technical in nature. A certificate from a qualifying educational institution or a career and technical education program is also valid. If you are a veteran, the 2-year eligibility period can be extended upon your release or discharge from active duty. But it cannot extend beyond 6 years from the date you completed the academic requirements.

We regularly seek technical experts to join our team. Join our mailing list to be notified when other jobs are available.

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 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.

To qualify, you must have:

  • One cumulative year of experience in the following requirements. This can include paid or unpaid internships, volunteer experiences, student organizations, and jobs:
    • Utilizing data, research, or user needs to conduct analysis and form recommendations, and
    • Product design, UX, research, tech policy or ethics, software development, cybersecurity, data science, privacy, product management.
  • Or, an advanced degree (e.g. Master's, PhD) from an accredited college or university. Graduate education qualifying for this position must be in a related field of study and must have provided the knowledge, skills and abilities comparable to those that would be gained through one year of experience as described in the previous bullet.
  • Or, a combination of education and experience for one of these fields.

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Build Government Digital Services

Technologists in this area design and manage the technical infrastructure of a vital government agency to build digital products that serve millions of Americans. Technologists work in cross-functional agile teams to create innovative products and services. Opportunities are available for technologists in web development and DevOps engineering.

To qualify, you must have:

  • One cumulative year of experience in the following requirements. This can include paid or unpaid internships, volunteer experiences, student organizations, and jobs:
    • Developing custom applications and/or infrastructure to meet requirements, and
    • Writing and editing back-end code, and
    • Software development, software infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, or cybersecurity.
  • Or, an advanced degree (e.g. Master's, PhD) from an accredited college or university. Graduate education qualifying for this position must be in a related field of study and must have provided the knowledge, skills and abilities comparable to those that would be gained through one year of experience as described in the previous bullet.
  • Or, a combination of education and experience in this field.

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Learn more about these opportunities

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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, 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.

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Reminder, to apply for a recent graduate position your academic transcript is required.

Prepare your federal resume

Government resumes are typically different from private sector norms and can be as long as five pages. Here are some things to remember:

  • Your experience will be assessed against the competencies and specialized experience statements listed in the “Qualifications” section of the job posting. Be as descriptive and detailed as possible in showing how your various experiences reflect those requirements. Don’t be afraid to include a bit more narrative than what you may be accustomed to — tell us the story of how you meet the required specialized experience.
  • When describing your experience, don’t just include paid positions or expressly technical positions. We’re interested in your ability to work with different groups, stakeholders, and contexts. Volunteer experiences, unpaid internships, and student organization contributions can all be listed as experience in addition to jobs and paid internships.
  • Tie skills, programming languages, technologies, and tools to specific experiences and contexts, instead of solely listing them in a standalone “skills” section. Explain why and how those skills were used in each 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.
  • Include the month and year for the start and end of each experience, as well as the number of hours per week if it was less than full-time (e.g. 10 hours/week).
  • When describing your education, in addition to information about your degree or certificate program(s), include relevant coursework, projects, presentations, and any research projects and publications you may have.
  • 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.

If this is your first time applying for a federal job, read our tips to help you navigate the process.

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