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Microbiologist

Food and Drug Administration · Posted 35 days ago

Hybrid Silver Spring, MD $85K – $111K Apply by Aug 21, 2026 Microbiology INTP
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About the Role

The position is based at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Office of Science (OS), Division of Product Science (DPS), Microbiology Branch, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, within the Department of Health and Human Services. CTP is the FDA center responsible for implementing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), landmark legislation passed by Congress in 2009 that established federal authority to regulate tobacco products.

What You'll Do

  • Demonstrates authoritative knowledge of microbiology principles, methodologies, and regulatory science.
  • Applies expert-level scientific judgment to interpret complex data, design studies, and provide guidance to stakeholders.
  • Communicates complex scientific information clearly, accurately, and persuasively in both written and oral formats to diverse audiences, including scientists, regulatory officials, industry representatives, and the public.
  • Initiates, designs, and presents scientific research to fill knowledge gaps relevant to regulatory decisions.
  • Maintains current awareness of emerging science through review of relevant literature and other scientific resources.
  • Provides advice on new findings through review of scientific literature, participation in professional meetings and undertaking independent research.

Requirements

  • TRANSCRIPTS: Positions which are scientific or technical in nature often have very specific educational requirements.
  • You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned.
  • If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional requirements.
  • Pay careful attention to the Qualifications and Education sections to identify vacancies where a transcript is required.
  • Even if you hold a similar position or are a current employee, you are not exempt from transcript requirements.
  • Electronic Transcript Caution: If you have obtained your transcripts electronically, the file might contain security measures that could prevent our application system from reading the file.
  • Therefore, you should consider asking the institution to provide the file in a non-secured electronic format.
  • Alternatively, you could scan or take a photo of the printed copy of the transcript.
  • If your uploaded transcript cannot be read by our system, you may receive consideration and credit for the information we can access.
  • FOREIGN EDUCATION Applicants using part, or all of their education completed outside of the U.S. to meet the qualification requirements, must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S.
  • We will only accept the completed foreign credential evaluation.
  • Note: Some positions require the completion of specific courses or a specified number of credit hours.
  • Therefore, the foreign credential evaluation should provide information similar to that of an official transcript, to include a list of the courses taken, quarter and/or semester hours awarded, the cumulative grade point average (GPA), honors received, if any, date degree awarded.
  • Applicants can request an evaluation from a member organization of one of the two national associations of credential evaluation services listed below: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE) Credential evaluations are not free, and applicants are responsible for the cost of the selected service.

Personality Fit

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