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

Digital Forensic Specialist (Forensic Scientist
4)

The Attorney General's Office is recruiting for a permanent full time Digital Forensic Specialist (Forensic Scientist
4) 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 4 Salary Range (68): $84,984 - $114,264 (Effective 7/1/25) | $86,688 - $116,544 (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.

The AGO provides a workplace that is understanding of work-life balance and promotes advancement by offering a wide variety of professional development and growth opportunities.

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:

• 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.

This expert level position within the MFAD's Digital Forensics Section serves as the forensic technical lead and directs operations in the Olympia DF Lab and MFAD mobile labs, applying research, method modification, or unique approaches to complex digital forensic casework, forensic acquisition, and advanced data analysis while ensuring legal defensibility, evidentiary integrity, and compliance with applicable forensic, data governance, and laboratory standards.

Some of the work includes:

• Responsible to independently operate as the forensic technical lead at multiple search warrant sites and locations which often occur simultaneously across WA state. Maintains and runs a mobile laboratory during onsite search warrants ensuring it maintains quality processes and ensuring operational compliance with all certification, accreditation, legal standards, and requirements.
• Responsible for assigning, auditing and correcting the casework of new digital forensics personnel in all laboratory and field settings. Authorized to direct and stop casework processes at any time if a problem occurs in the laboratory, mobile laboratory, and/or out in the field.
• 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.
• Uses forensic techniques, programming language and develops queries to identify and recover hidden, encrypted, unparsed or deleted information related to the case, safeguards the integrity of data by following a chain of custody that ensures its admissibility in court, testifying as an expert witness in legal proceedings when required
• 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

Required Qualifications

Six (6) years of experience in digital forensics or a closely related field with at least four (4) years of technical experience working and managing and/or operating a lead role in a forensic lab and testifying in a court of law. A Bachelor's degree in forensic science or closely related field may substitute for two (2) years of experience in digital…