Remote Biomedical Clinical Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Summary
This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21 of the United States Code (21 US Code 379d-3a) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, section 3072 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Section 3624. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority. This position is being recruited based on the Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band F.
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Duties
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• Serves as top scientific and technical expert and advisor and is nationally and internationally recognized authority in professional healthcare and medical related work spanning multiple disciplines with the health sciences.
• Provide scientific and technical leadership and guidance on regulations and policy issues, and federal laws (including the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act).
• Oversee OCEA regulatory and scientific work including developing policy and program support regarding clinical evidence, supporting device reviews that require expert clinical and real-world evidence analysis, and providing data infrastructure, management and analysis for clinical and real-world evidence.
• Provide scientific and technical consultation to the OCEA Director and other high-level officials in CDRH, FDA, PHS and HHS on program status, plans, trends and significant problems.
• Leads, manages and sets strategy for the OCEA.
• Ensures that OCEA activities are aligned with the goals and priorities of OPEQ.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides technical, policy and administrative leadership, supervision and direction to the subordinate staff of the Office through subordinate supervisors.
• Exercises the full range of first and second-level supervisory responsibilities.
• Exercises significant responsibilities in dealing with officials of other units or organizations, or in advising management officials of higher rank.
• Works with the Office Director on the development, establishment, and clearance of goals, objectives, and strategic plans for the Office.

Requirements
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Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship requirement or proof of being a U.S. National must be met by closing date.
• The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment within the competitive service.
• Direct Deposit: You will be required to have all federal salary payments electronically deposited into a bank account with a financial institution of your choice.
• FDA participates in e-Verify: All new hires must complete the I-9 form; this information will be processed through e-Verify to determine your employment eligibility. If a discrepancy arises, you must take affirmative steps to resolve the matter.
• Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered with the Selective Service. Please go to http://www.sss.gov for more information.
• Financial Disclosure may be required.
• Ethics Clearance may be required.
• Background Investigation Requirement: All employees must pass a security investigation. Failing to pass the background check may be grounds for removal or legal action. If hired, you may be subject to additional investigations at a later time.
• Certification of Accuracy: All information concerning eligibility and qualification is subject to investigation and verification. False representation may be grounds for non-consideration, non-selection, or appropriate legal action.
• All applicants tentatively selected for this position will be required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident drug testing upon hiring.
• Appointment to the position will be contingent upon a negative applicant drug test result.
• Probationary periods are required for new employees appointed to competitive service positions for the first time; or reinstated employees who return after a break in service of 30-days or more and who have not completed a probationary period.
• A one year supervisory probationary period may be required.

Qualifications
In order to qualify for the Deputy Office Director (Supervisory Biomedical Engineer) position which falls under the 0858 occupational Series, you must meet the following requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 08/24/2026:
Basic Qualification Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:(1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
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B. Combination of education and experience college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
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IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED ABOVE, APPLICANTS MUST ALSO MEET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Have a bachelor's degree and have 7 years of comparable experience providing scientific and technical leadership and oversight for clinical evidence and analysis programs supporting medical device regulation; serves as technical authority in clinical evidence evaluation, regulatory science, or engineering; oversees and directs comprehensive scientific reviews of clinical data, real-world evidence, and regulatory submissions related to medical device safety and effectiveness.
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Have a master's degree and have 6 years of comparable experience providing scientific and technical leadership and oversight for clinical evidence and analysis programs supporting medical device regulation; serves as technical authority in clinical evidence evaluation, regulatory science, or engineering; oversees and directs comprehensive scientific reviews of clinical data, real-world evidence, and regulatory submissions related to medical device safety and effectiveness.
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Have a Doctorate/PhD and/or J.D. degree and have 4 years of comparable experience providing scientific and technical leadership and oversight for clinical evidence and analysis programs supporting medical device regulation; serves as technical authority in clinical evidence evaluation, regulatory science, or engineering; oversees and directs comprehensive scientific reviews of clinical data, real-world evidence, and regulatory submissions related to medical device safety and effectiveness.
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Have a MD, DO, DDS, DPM, or DVM degree and have 4 years of comparable experience providing scientific and technical leadership and oversight for clinical evidence and analysis programs supporting medical device regulation; Serves as technical authority in clinical evidence evaluation, regulatory science, or engineering; Oversees and directs comprehensive scientific reviews of clinical data, real-world evidence, and regulatory submissions related to medical device safety and effectiveness.
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Have 11 years of comparable experience providing scientific and technical leadership and oversight for clinical evidence and analysis programs supporting medical device regulation; Serves as technical authority in clinical evidence evaluation, regulatory science, or engineering; Oversees and directs comprehensive scientific reviews of clinical data, real-world evidence, and regulatory submissions related to medical device safety and effectiveness.
NOTE: Applicants must submit all relevant transcripts that demonstrate you possess the required education to meet the Basic Qualifications.
Education
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.
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.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional 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: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit the U.S. Department of Education website for Foreign Education Evaluation
To be acceptable, the foreign credential evaluation must include/describe at a minimum, the following information: (1) The type of education received by the applicant; (2) The level of education in relation to the U.S. education system, and state that its comparability recommendations follow the general guidelines of the International Evaluation Standards Council; (3) The content of the applicant's educational program earned abroad, and the standard obtained; (4) The status of the awarding foreign school's recognition and legitimacy in its home country's education system; and (5) Any other information of interest such as what the evaluation service did to obtain this information, the qualifications of the evaluator, and any indications as to other problems such as forgery.
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:

1. National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES)
2. Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE)

Credential evaluations are not free, and applicants are