Technical Editor

About the Role

Leidos is seeking a Senior Technical Editor to support the Defense Combating Terrorism Office for an Intelligence agency. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in editing complex, specialized intelligence products, ensuring clarity, consistency, and compliance with established style guides.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Review intelligence products for proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as well as for logic, clarity, and consistency.
• Ensure that style and format conform to agency publication standards and that language presentation is consistent with prescribed style guides and specialized vocabulary of subject matter fields.
• Amend draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text.
• Ensure proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance.
• Work with authors to revise products for narrative organization, and negotiate further revisions as needed.
• Edit technical materials, such as reports of analytic or research findings; scientific or technical articles, news releases, and periodicals; regulations in technical areas; technical manuals, specifications, brochures, and pamphlets; or speeches or scripts on scientific or technical subjects.
• Apply writing and editing skills and substantial knowledge of the basic principles and specialized vocabulary of appropriate subject-matter fields to the accurate communication of scientific and technological developments to expert and other interested audiences.

What We Need from You:

• Able to obtain Active Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) with Polygraph security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 17 to 20 years of relevant DoD and/or IC technical editing experience or Master's with 12 to 15 years of relevant DoD and/or IC technical editing experience.

Benefits and What We Offer:

The Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers' mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business, and we empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.

Pay Information:

Leidos offers a competitive salary range of $101,400.00 - $183,300.00. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.