AV Engineer - Senior

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Overview: Are you a seasoned AV Engineer with a collaborative mindset, who thrives in dynamic environments supporting world class AV systems?  Are you interested in joining a high performing team with a mission-driven organization that believes in providing safe, comfortable workspaces for their employees? Freddie Mac is seeking a talented Senior Media Services Engineer to join our team! Our Impact: Design, Install, Operate and Support integrated AV systems throughout the McLean campus & Regional offices, elevating the quality of executive and corporate gatherings. Enable Freddie Mac leaders and teams to communicate confidently, with all technical details managed discreetly and professionally by our Media Services team. Foster a culture of excellence in hybrid and in-person meeting experiences.

The Senior AV Engineer supports Freddie Mac’s Media Services team by designing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving integrated AV systems across the HQ campus and regional offices, including conference rooms, configurable event spaces, executive meeting areas, and hybrid collaboration environments. In coordination with the Chief Engineer, this role serves as a senior technical resource for AV engineering, system reliability, project support, commissioning, documentation, and escalation response. The engineer must be detail-focused, maintain a strong problem-solving posture, and demonstrate the ability to manage multiple on-site projects simultaneously while keeping stakeholders informed and workstreams organized. The position helps ensure Freddie Mac employees, executives, business partners, and event teams have stable, user-friendly AV experiences for daily meetings, high-profile events, Teams-enabled collaboration, and enterprise communications. Design, deploy, configure, maintain, and improve Freddie Mac AV systems for smart conference rooms, huddle rooms, training rooms, configurable spaces, executive spaces, digital signage, collaboration areas, and live event environments. Collaborate closely with the Chief Engineer on AV engineering standards, technical priorities, project execution, system lifecycle planning, and operational improvements. Serve as a senior escalation resource for complex AV hardware, software, network, control system, conferencing, audio, video, and signal-flow issues. Perform system commissioning, testing, calibration, firmware validation, acceptance checks, and quality assurance to ensure rooms meet Freddie Mac AV standards and business expectations. Support high-profile Freddie Mac meetings, executive presentations, town halls, Teams Town Hall events, hybrid events, broadcasts, and campus events, including pre-event testing, rehearsal support, show-day troubleshooting, and post-event technical review. Create, review, and maintain technical documentation, including system diagrams, rack elevations, equipment inventories, room standards, operating procedures, commissioning checklists, maintenance records, and support guides. Partner with Corporate Services, IT, Facilities, Security, Corporate Meetings and Events, business stakeholders, vendors, electricians, low-voltage contractors, and network teams to plan and deliver AV projects. Manage multiple on-site AV projects and workstreams by tracking priorities, coordinating tasks, communicating status, identifying blockers, and keeping stakeholders aligned from planning through completion. Review vendor work, submittals, shop drawings, punch-list items, service tickets, and closeout documentation to ensure technical accuracy, installation quality, safety, and alignment with Freddie Mac requirements. Evaluate new AV, collaboration, control