Deputy State Medical Examiner

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Initial Posting Date: 09/08/2025

Final date to receive applications: 03/04/2026

Agency:
Oregon State Department of Police

Salary Range: $24,865 - $27,404

Position Type:
Employee

Position Title:

Deputy State Medical Examiner

Job Description:

Posting

Title:

Deputy State Medical Examiner—REQ-186839

Salary Range: $24,865 - $27,404 Monthly

Add annual salary: $334,380 - $328,848

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

Initial Posting Date: 08/28/2025

Final date to receive applications: 03/04/2026

Agency:
Oregon State Police

Location:

Clackamas, Oregon

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

This recruitment will remain open until March 4, 2026, or until filled, with application review dates occurring approximately every two weeks beginning September 10, 2025. 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-186839.

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.

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 consultation in appropriate cases.
• Share autopsy responsibilities with the State Medical Examiner and other Deputy State Medical Examiners, rotating weekend, night, holiday, and vacation coverage.
• Write autopsy reports, and other reports as appropriate, relating to death investigations.
• Provide…