# Senior Arabic Linguists

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled cleared Arabic Linguist to join our mission-driven team. The successful candidate will provide professional-level linguistic support across translation, interpretation, transcription, and gisting.

Responsibilities:

- Translate materials from Arabic into English and vice versa, capturing subtle nuances, cultural references, and abstract concepts with contextual accuracy.

- Provide consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, maintaining high fidelity and fluency, and demonstrating understanding of regional dialects and cultural context.

- Transcribe audio or review internet-based content and produce high-quality English-language reports based on audio/visual materials.

- Identify and summarise key facts and abstract concepts accurately, prioritising and extracting critical information from large datasets.

Requirements:

- An active TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph.

- Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 6-10 years of related experience.

- 3+ years of professional and recent translation and interpretation experience.

- Must successfully complete a Leidos-administered language proficiency test or equivalent at the Senior level or higher.

- Translation and/or interpretation degree is highly desired.

- HLT experience a plus.

- US immigration experience is highly desired.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and basic online research.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and target languages.

- Travel OCONUS is a requirement on this program.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary range: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

- Access to cutting-edge tools and strong leadership

- Meaningful work that truly matters

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience supporting contingency operations as a deployed linguist.

- Familiarity with the U.S. Intelligence Community, military operations, or law enforcement environments.

- Ability to effectively brief and communicate findings to various stakeholders.

- Proficiency in multiple languages is a strong asset.

## Skills

### Required
- Arabic
- translation
- interpretation
- transcription
- gisting
- Microsoft Office Suite
- language proficiency testing

### Nice to have
- HLT
- US immigration experience
- multiple languages
- contingency operations
- U.S. Intelligence Community

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