This announcement is open to all qualified U.S. citizens.
NOTE: CURRENT PERMANENT FBI EMPLOYEES MUST APPLY FOR THIS JOB THROUGH RISE, Announcement Number RISE-JOB-25-000358 for FBI Professional Staff. Applications will not be accepted from outside of the area of consideration.
This opening is available for application until 1/8/2025.
Job Summary
Position: Senior Physical Scientist
Section: Digital Forensics & Analytics Section
Division: Operational Technology Division
Location: Huntsville, AL
Working Hours: 8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. (Flexible)
Salary: $147,649 - $205,333
Promotional Potential: none
Limited Cost Transfer may be offered with non-continuous service transfers.
Cost Transfer may be offered with continuous service transfers.
Travel Required – some domestic travel may be required
This position does not allow for remote or telework options.
Key Requirements
Must be able to obtain a Top Secret-SCI clearance
U.S. Citizenship Required
The Mission of the FBI is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. Public Service is a public trust. For the FBI, this means that the public has committed to our care the safety of our Nation and the defense of our Constitution. To sustain that trust and to meet our resulting obligations, we must adhere strictly to our core values of: Rigorous obedience to the Constitution, Respect, Compassion, Fairness, Integrity, Accountability, Leadership, and Diversity.
Major Duties
This position will report to the Section Chief, Digital Forensics & Analytics Section but will serve as consultant to the entirety of Operational Technology Division.
The SL will deal with facets of the FBI’s Image and Video Technologies and examination and processing of image and video media (i.e., “multimedia”).
The SL serves as the FBI's top expert and international authority on multimedia analytics, to include facial recognition, complex imaging technologies relating to the forensic examination of digital and analog media, biometrics research and development pertaining to multimedia, preservation of multimedia evidence for archiving and presentation in the courts, and collection of image and video data from government and private image/video systems. The SL will conduct development of automated tools/systems for application in the identification of objects/individuals, the processing of multimedia for forensic examination, and incorporation into next generation biometric systems ensuring the developments meet standards for scientific acceptance in the state and federal judicial systems and with relevant scientific communities. The SL will be required to be technical as well as have a basic legal knowledge, including the Daubert Standards for acceptance of scientific evidence in the courts. The SL will provide comprehensive research direction for a program in which the FBI is and will remain as the world leader. Involves a broad range of disciplines and technologies and has a significant impact on all investigative programs of the FBI.
The SL will conduct research in emerging multimedia technologies and forensic examination of multimedia technologies including, but not limited to, multimedia triage, multimedia authentication and provenance assurance, facial identification from images, facial comparison, ear pattern identification, gait and whole body recognition and re-identification, clothing comparisons, image/video storage, archiving, compression and its effects on multimedia examination, anthropometrics, biometrics; and, forensic video and image technologies.
Qualifications & Evaluations
Candidates for this position should possess a record of accomplishments which demonstrate exceptional interpersonal leadership/responsibilities, project program/management, leading innovation, and business results skills.
Candidate must have one year equivalent experience at the GS-14 or GS-15 level to be considered.
Please make sure your specialized experience/requirement(s) can be identified in your resume. Applicants must meet the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Your application will be evaluated and rated under the FBI’s Candidate Rating Procedures. Your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed in this announcement.
Senior Level Core Qualifications:
Please ensure you respond to each of the competencies. Failure to respond to the competencies will not allow you to submit your application.
1. Project/Program Management - exceptional ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements; identify problems and use sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives; work with, understand, and evaluate technical information related to the job.
2. Interpersonal Leadership/Responsibilities - proven leadership ability to work with others to achieve goals; use customer input to inform quality products and services; influence, motivate, and challenge others.
3. Leading Innovation - exceptional ability to adapt behaviors or work methods in response to new information; formulate effective strategies consistent with the business processes and in line with the organization goals in a global environment.
4. Business Results - exceptional ability to focus on measurable outputs and outcomes that are aligned to the organization goals and objectives, and/or program and policy objectives.
