Digital Forensic Specialist; Forensic Scientist | Medicaid Fraud & Abuse | Olympia

Digital Forensic Specialist (Forensic Scientist
3)

The Attorney General's Office is recruiting for a permanent full time Digital Forensic Specialist (Forensic Scientist
3) in the Medicaid Fraud & Abuse Division. This position is located in Olympia, Washington, and is represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).

Forensic Scientist 3 Salary Range (66): $80,820 - $108,780 (Effective 7/1/25) | $82,440 - $110,952 (Effective 7/1/26) The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the preferred candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation, including Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & dependent(s);
Vacation, Sick, and Other Leave; 11 Paid Holidays per year;
Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) plans; and Life Insurance. Beyond these traditional benefits, we offer Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave, and more. With the goal of employee health and wellness, we also offer:

• Flexible schedules and part-time/hybrid telework options;
• A Wellness Program, an Infants in the Workplace Program, and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides counseling, webinar, and other cost-free support resources;
• Numerous employee-driven affinity groups to foster community and connection, including Bereavement, Elder Care, Parenting, POC, LGBTQ+, Veterans and more. The AGO is a place to belong and make a difference!

The work of the Office's Medicaid Fraud & Abuse Division (MFAD) focuses on both criminal and civil law enforcement. The 75% federally funded MFAD's mission is combating provider fraud, abuse and neglect in residential facilities and involving Medicaid recipients in non-institutional settings.

MFAD involves protecting not only the Medicaid program of roughly 22.9 billion dollars annually, but also its most vulnerable persons, typically elderly persons in residential facilities or persons abused or neglected by a Medicaid Provider. In many of our cases, there is no precedent, so MFAD is consistently on the cutting edge of legal theories and issues. The cases range from abuse and neglect of persons in nursing homes, large scale organized individual and corporate civil and criminal fraudulent activity to national whistle blower actions.

Our staff is a highly professional, fun and seasoned analytical investigative team. MFAD is unique in that all cases have an attorney, special agent, and data scientist assigned with legal support. In cases involving digital evidence, a Digital Forensics Specialist is assigned as needed to provide specialized technical expertise. This, and the great people who make up the division, gives MFAD a particularly terrific team atmosphere.

Duties include:

• Responding to requests for assistance for digital forensics at search warrant sites across WA state and in the laboratory.
• Identify, preserve, acquire, validate, analyze, extract, and document electronically stored information (ESI) obtained through legal process, using multiple forensic acquisition methods to collect and preserve structured and unstructured data from diverse digital sources, including computers, mobile devices, IoT devices, and removable media.
• Perform highly complex analyses of digital evidence from computers, mobile devices, cloud services, IoT devices, network traffic, and other storage media. Interpret complex datasets, identify patterns and anomalies, and reconstruct events from multiple evidence sources.
• Document and protect evidence according to laboratory procedures, ensuring that the chain of custody is maintained.
• Forensic reporting of digital evidence across numerous formats. Reports findings in the form of a written laboratory report based on the interpretation of observations and analytical test results.
• Provides assistance with civil and criminal prosecutions and testifies in court as a subject matter expert in digital forensics.
• Facilitate technical training on relevant digital forensics topics

Required Qualifications

Five (5) years of experience in digital forensics or a related technical or quantitative field with at least two (2) years of technical experience working in a forensic lab. A Bachelor's degree in forensic science or closely related field may substitute for two (2) years of experience.

Skills & Abilities

• Professional certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, CCO, CCPA, CCME, MCFE, FTK or CFCE.
• Background in specialized areas such as SQL, SQLite, Python, and other programming languages, cloud forensics, IoT forensics, or malware reverse engineering.
• Ability to apply knowledge of network computer systems, common communication software, including Outlook, and familiarity with electronic e-mail systems; knowledge of different operating systems, including Windows, DOS, Linux, and Mac OS; the Internet; hardware in standalone computers; various electronic…