# Farsi Linguist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Language Services
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Farsi linguist with proficiency in Dari to join our mission-driven team. This role requires a language expert capable of handling a diverse range of complex linguistic tasks with accuracy, cultural awareness, and insight.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide professional-level linguistic support across translation, interpretation, transcription, and gisting

- Translate materials from Pashto and Dari into English and vice versa

- Capture subtle nuances, cultural references, and abstract concepts with contextual accuracy

- Provide consecutive interpretation; simultaneous interpretation may occasionally be required

- Listen to audio or review internet-based content and transcribe accurately and efficiently

- Identify and summarize key facts and abstract concepts accurately

**Security Clearance:**

- An active TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph

- Candidates must also be eligible for a security clearance upgrade

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience

- Translation and/or interpretation degree is highly desired

- HLT experience a plus

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

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and basic online research

**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

**Additional Information:**

- Attending and passing all sponsor-related training is a requirement of employment

- All Candidates must take and successfully pass a medical laboratory and/or physical screen as required by the program

- Successfully completing the required weapons training

- Travel is required both OCONUS and CONUS and is at the discretion of the customer

**Why Leidos?**

- At Leidos, we're not just offering a job , we're offering a mission

- As part of the Leidos Intel Sector, you'll contribute to a safer world by enabling critical intelligence efforts with AI, machine learning, and digital modernization

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## Skills

### Required
- Farsi
- Dari
- Pashto
- English
- Microsoft Office Suite

### Nice to have
- multiple languages
- HLT
- U.S. Intelligence Community
- military operations
- law enforcement environments

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