Senior Spanish Linguist

Leidos seeks a Senior Spanish Linguist to support mission-critical IT and analytics programs. In this role, you will perform advanced Spanish-English translation, localization, and linguistic quality review of technical and operational content for government and commercial clients. You will curate and annotate language data, develop glossaries, and partner with software and AI teams to improve language technologies. Leveraging Leidos' collaborative, mission-driven culture, you will mentor junior linguists and help design scalable linguistic workflows that meet strict accuracy, security, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Execute high-accuracy Spanish-English translation, localization, and linguistic review of technical and mission-focused content.

• Design and maintain terminology databases, style guides, and glossaries for Spanish language programs.

• Annotate, curate, and evaluate language datasets to support NLP and AI language models.

• Collaborate with software engineers and data scientists to improve language processing tools and workflows.

• Conduct linguistic quality assurance and implement process improvements to meet security and compliance standards.

• Mentor junior linguists and contribute to best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams.

Required Skills

• Spanish-English translation and editing

• Computational linguistics/NLPCorpus and text analysis tools

• Terminology and glossary management

• Localization for technical/IT content

• Linguistic quality assurance (LQA)

• Data annotation and labeling

• CAT tools (e.g., SDL Trados, Memo

• Q)

• Collaboration with software/AI teams

• Security-conscious handling of sensitive data