Linguist, Senior

About the role

As a defense mission professional, you will apply your language expertise to analyze global, regional, and trans-regional online media landscapes that impact Combatant Command missions. You will examine online news sources, social media posts, URLs, comments, and other digital content to help identify emerging narratives, influencers, and geopolitical dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Analyze social media, online forums, news sources, or digital communities
• Conduct rapid assessments of content using search engines, commercial analytic tools, automated language processors, or web crawlers
• Translate quality assurance and quality control on human and machine-generated products to ATA or equivalent government standards
• Provide insights that help operational planners understand how information circulates across the digital environment
• Apply linguistic analysis or foreign-language research in operational, intelligence, or academic environments

Requirements

• Show a score of 3/3 on the ILR or DLPT in the Farsi language
• Have a Secret clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of experience in linguistic translation
• Master’s degree and 10+ years of experience in linguistic translation

Skills

• Experience with linguistic analysis or foreign-language research
• Experience analyzing social media, online forums, news sources, or digital communities
• Experience conducting rapid assessments of content using search engines, commercial analytic tools, automated language processors, or web crawlers
• Knowledge of linguistic variation, dialects, and language-specific cues influencing interpretation or meaning
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to planners, analysts, and operational stakeholders
• Ability to analyze large volumes of foreign-language digital content and produce concise, operationally relevant insights
• Ability to show a score of 4/4 on the ILR, DLPT, or equivalent in the Farsi language
• Master’s degree in a related field

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.