Description

Job Description:

Looking for an exciting challenge? Our Leidos Innovation Center (LInC) is seeking an Open Source Collector to provide collection and exploitation of publicly-available information (PAI). Based in Washington, DC, 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.

Fun challenges on the job:
- Seeking improvement in methodologies used and creating new solutions, based on subject matter expertise, in order to identify areas of operational efficiencies for the open source intelligence program.
- Respond to requests for information (RFIs) from customers by collecting data, interpreting results, and publishing detailed written reports.
- Define requirements for enhancement to collection and analytics platform, and participate in acceptance testing.

Skills you need to be successful in this job:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with at least 4 years of experience as an intelligence analyst or data collector
- Spoken and written fluency in Chinese (Mandarin)
- Must be a US Citizen with a Top Secret security clearance and willing to submit to a polygraph
- Significant experience with Boolean logic, natural language processing, social media analytics, data correlation, and data visualizations
- Ability to write reports, format and populate dashboards, and provide context to data
- Ability to work one-on-one and as a contributor to a team
- 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
- Excellent oral and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent
- Proven experience with data science techniques
- Ability to script analyses and write algorithms to partially automate tasks
- Proven experience with statistical data mining techniques

The ideal candidate has a demonstrated aptitude for problem solving complex technical issues, identifying, transforming, thinking outside the box, and a strong sense of accountability is desired. 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.

D3P
LInC
External Referral Eligible

External Referral Bonus:Ineligible

Potential for Telework:No

Clearance Level Required:Top Secret

Travel:Yes, 10% of the time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Shift:Day

Requisition Category:Professional

Job Family:Intelligence

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $10.19 billion for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2018. For more information, visit .

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