APHIS Career Fields: Biotechnology

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Biotechnology professionals with APHIS are at the forefront of cutting-edge science. They protect U.S. agriculture by ensuring certain organisms developed using genetic engineering that may pose a plant pest risk can be safely imported, moved interstate, and released into the environment.

We hire biotechnology experts and other specialists for a variety of positions.

Biotechnology Job Titles

  • Biochemist
  • Compliance Specialist
  • Plant Breeders and Biologists
  • Plant Pathologist
  • Ecologist
  • Entomologist
  • Field Inspector
  • Geneticist
  • Microbiologist
  • Molecular Biologist

Common Majors

  • Agronomy
  • Agriculture
  • Biology
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biotechnology
  • Botany
  • Chemistry
  • Entomology
  • Environmental Science