Job Description
Special Agent - Law/Legal Background is listed by Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI is hiring Special Agents with a law or permitted background to join its investigative workforce.
These roles center on planning and carrying out investigations of potential federal law violations, such as matters of national security, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, and foreign intelligence.
Agents exercise judgment, resourcefulness, and versatility in meeting investigative demands. They build and keep up liaison relationships with federal, state, nearby, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement agencies. Tasks also cover coordinating searches, seizures, and arrests, carrying a firearm, and keeping up physical fitness.
This role is suited for professionals with lawful expertise who desire to register their abilities to shield the United States. The FBI values applicants committed to the guideline of law and the Constitution. The function area provides a structured path route with finalize federal advantages.
Salary & Compensation
Pay / Settle Package: $99,461 - $128,329 per year.
Qualification
All you must have two years of full-time operate expertise and a bachelor's degree, or one year of full-time perform experience with an refined degree (master's or doctorate).
Specialized Know-how (SE) is called for, defined as gathering and analyzing data, solving problems, organizing competing assignments, managing complicated environments, and communicating effectively.
- Be a U.S. Citizen.
- Have a bachelor's degree or higher from a U.S. Accredited college or university.
- Possess full-time skilled function experience (two years with bachelor's, one year with cutting degree).
- Be eligible for a Top-Secret SCI Clearance.
- Be capable to legally possess and bear a firearm.
- Be at least 23 years longstanding and not have reached your 37th birthday on appointment (exceptions may apply).
- Gather the FBI's Employment Eligibility needs.
- Meet medical and physical conditions.
- Possess a legitimate driver's license with at least six months driving background.
- Be available for assignment to any of the FBI's 56 Field Offices.
Role Responsibilities
- Blueprint and conduct investigations of potential violations of federal laws.
- Exercise judgment, resourcefulness, and versatility in meeting investigative demands.
- Produce and uphold effective liaison relationships with federal, state, area, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement agencies.
- Arrange and/or participate in searches, seizures, and arrests.
- Carry a firearm and be willing to use force, covering deadly force, if required.
- Keep up a level of physical fitness to make sure readiness needed to perform law enforcement duties.
- Advise on law enforcement and intelligence operations, investigations, and policies from a legal perspective.
How to Apply
- Unseal the USAJOBS announcement and with your USAJOBS/Login.gov account.
- Wrap up the federal submission questionnaire.
- Attach your federal resume (apply the Resume Builder) and called for documents (transcripts, SF-50 if suitable, etc.).
- Review the Distinct Agent Selection Routine handbook before registering.
- Send in your submission before the closing date (12/30/2026).
Additional Information
- This role is exempted from the federal civilian hiring freeze.
- Pay covers base cover, locality settle for Washington D.C. Field, and availability cover (25% of base+locality). Upon graduation, salary adjusts to office assignment locality.
- You must consent to a finish background investigation, urinalysis, and polygraph.
- Travel may be needed.
- Don’t attach a include letter.
- Uploaded documents must be readable; don’t upload picture files (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP).
- For current or former federal employees, involve SF-50 and any Memorandum for Record for additional responsibilities.
About Company
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the principal federal investigative agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. Its mission is to safeguard the United States from terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence operations, cyber attacks, and other criminal threats.
The FBI employs Unique Agents from diverse expert backgrounds, such as law and legal fields, to run investigations and uphold federal law. For candidates, the FBI presents a challenging profession with finalize federal gains, structured settle scales, and prospects for advancement across 56 field offices nationwide.
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