Deputy State Medical Examiner – Clackamas

Position Title

Deputy State Medical Examiner – Clackamas

09/11/2026

03/10/2027

Oregon State Department of Police

$23,328 - $25,719

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Title:

Deputy State Medical Examiner – Clackamas —REQ-206565

Salary Range: $23,328.00 - $25,719.00 Monthly

Add annual salary (without differential included)

(7.5% differential added to base pay with board certification)

(4% Cost of living adjustment – January 1, 2027)

Initial Posting Date: 09/08/2026

Final date to receive applications: 03/10/2027

Agency:
Oregon State Police

Location:

Clackamas, Oregon

The Oregon State Police, Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office in Clackamas, Oregon is hiring for (1) Full-Time, Permanent Deputy State Medical Examiner position.

This recruitment will remain open until March 10, 2027, or until filled, with application review dates occurring approximately every two weeks beginning September 23, 2026. We may close the announcement at any time after the review date if we have received an adequate number of applications. We cannot guarantee that we will consider applications received after this screening date. We encourage interested applicants not to delay in applying.

If you require an alternate format in order to complete the employment process, or to request a copy of the position description, please contact osp.recruitinggon.gov and reference REQ-206565.

The State of Oregon does not request or require your age, date of birth, attendance or graduation dates from an educational institution during the application process.

The State Medical Examiner’s Office is the sole provider of forensic pathology services throughout Oregon. Our team closely collaborates with the county medical examiners and medical legal death investigators employed by each county’s death investigation program, providing technical supervision of all medicolegal death investigations.

Deputy State Medical Examiners are stationed in the Portland metro area (Clackamas), Eugene area, and Central Point, Oregon. Forensic pathologists at the State Medical Examiner’s Clackamas location currently perform all medical legal autopsies for Northwestern, Eastern, and Central Oregon; however, a significant expansion of our program and other work facilities is underway. This growth includes development of a State Medical Examiner facility in Eugene.

Once the Eugene building is completed, this facility in the Central Willamette Valley will accommodate autopsy services for some of the areas presently covered by the Portland area office. This position will join a team of six forensic pathologists in our main facility in Clackamas, Oregon.

Our forensic pathologists are supported by a wonderful staff of well-trained autopsy technicians and administrative specialists. Our team also includes a full-time forensic anthropologist who oversees Oregon’s Unidentified Human Remains program and provides consults on skeletal remains. Toxicology testing is performed on-site by an ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accredited laboratory.

Our office’s work includes a teaching program providing regular lectures on legal medicine and death investigation to many groups, including students from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and Western University School of Osteopathic Medicine, law students, pathology residents, medical legal death investigators, police officers, and healthcare professionals.

We offer paid licensure renewals, CME, professional memberships, and annual conference attendance, as well as generous relocation expense reimbursement.

We encourage current forensic pathology fellows to apply.

• Perform autopsies and provide expert medical…