Collector

The Leidos National Security Sector (NSS) is seeking an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Collector to provide collection and exploitation of publicly-available information (PAI).

Located out of Charlottesville, VA you will conduct strategic, tactical, and operational exploitation of various publicly available data sources, to include unconventional deep and dark web sources with the purpose of assessing value to our customers’ interests.

Additionally, you will be responsible for production of complex open source reporting while seeking improvement in methodologies and developing new solutions based on your subject matter expertise in order to create operational efficiencies for the open source intelligence program.

As a Chinese-language OSINT Collector, you will research, collect, triage, process, and exploit Chinese language publicly-available information, and then disseminate your findings through well-written reports for an English language audience.

Primary Responsibilities

Fun stuff you will be doing on the job :

Respond to requests for information (RFIs) from customers by collecting open source data, interpreting results, and authoring detailed written reports.

Collaborate with your team to publish impactful reporting that answers mission-impactful questions.

Identify areas for enhancement to collection and analytics platforms, and participate in acceptance testing.

Basic Qualifications

• Spoken and written fluency in Chinese (any dialect).
• Must be a US Citizen with a Top Secret security clearance and able to obtain SCI clearance with polygraph
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with 4 years of professional experience as an intelligence analyst, data collector, or linguist.

2 years with Master’s Degree. 4 years of additional relevant experience may be acceptable in lieu of a degree.

• Ability to write reports, format and populate dashboards, and provide context to data.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Ability to work independently and as a contributor to a team leading collaboration topics
• Self-starter with curious mindset and desire to solve problems and learn new skills
• Strong organizational skills, time-management skills, attention to detail, and strong initiative
• Significant experience with Boolean logic, natural language processing, social media analytics, data correlation, and data visualizations.

Preferred Qualifications

You will wow us even more if you have these skills :

• Proven experience with data science / advanced data analytic techniques, such as using python, R, or other scripting languages
• Proven experience with statistical data mining techniques

The ideal candidate has a demonstrated aptitude for problem solving complex technical issues and thinking outside the box.

We are seeking individuals with a mix of technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, communications skills, customer-focus, and operational experience to improve the performance and user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.

Individual must be motivated, self-driven team player who can multi-task and interact well with others and advise / consult with other team members on systems security engineering and software development related issues.

Original Posting Date :

2024-04-30

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00

Last updated : 2024-05-13

Salary : $68,900 - $124,550