Why This Role Stands Out
This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your Kurdish language expertise in a mission-critical capacity, contributing directly to national security initiatives while developing valuable technical and analytical skills. You'll thrive here if you possess strong translation, interpretation, and analytical abilities, and enjoy collaborating with diverse teams to ensure accurate information exchange. Apply now to join a respected organization and make a significant impact.
Quick Overview
Job Description
Leidos is seeking a Kurdish Linguist to support mission-critical IT and national security programs. In this role, you will translate, transcribe, and interpret Kurdish to and from English, ensuring accuracy, cultural nuance, and context for technical, operational, and intelligence-related materials. You will review and analyze open-source and classified content, prepare clear written summaries, and support multilingual documentation for digital and cyber systems. Working closely with analysts, engineers, and project teams, you'll help enable secure, timely information sharing while adhering to strict quality, confidentiality, and ethical standards.
Responsibilities
- Translate and interpret Kurdish to and from English for technical and operational content
- Transcribe audio and video materials with high linguistic accuracy
- Provide cultural and regional context to support analysts and project teams
- Review, analyze, and summarize open-source and classified materials
- Prepare clear written reports, summaries, and documentation
- Collaborate with IT, cyber, and analytics teams on multilingual products
- Apply quality control standards to all language deliverables
- Protect sensitive information and follow security and confidentiality protocols
- Use translation and analytical tools to improve efficiency
- Support continuous improvement of language processes and workflows
Required Skills
- Kurdish-English translation
- Kurdish-English interpretation
- Transcription
- Linguistic quality assurance
- Cultural and regional analysis
- Technical and IT terminology
- Open-source research and analysis
- Report writing and documentation
- Use of CAT/translation tools
- Information security and confidentiality
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