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Senior Technical Recruiter

Leidos


Job Location:

Reston, VA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 92300 - 166850
Posted: 29 September 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to support our Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA) within the Intelligence Community (IC) market in Columbia MD. This position will partner closely with Program Leadership and hiring managers to develop and execute recruiting strategies focused on attracting highly skilled technical professionals including candidates with TS/SCI with Polygraph clearances.


The ideal candidate is a proactive results-oriented recruiter who understands the highly competitive cleared talent market and can build relationships with both active and passive candidates. Success requires strong sourcing capabilities urgency sound judgment and the ability to serve as a trusted talent acquisition partner to the business.


Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage full life cycle recruiting across multiple Intelligence Community programs from intake and sourcing through offer acceptance and onboarding.
  • Develop and execute targeted recruiting and sourcing strategies for highly cleared technical talent including software engineering cyber AI/ML systems engineering DevOps cloud SIGINT and related disciplines.
  • Proactively identify and engage TS/SCI and polygraph-cleared candidates using ClearanceJobs LinkedIn referrals networking Boolean search candidate databases recruiting events and other sourcing channels.
  • Partner closely with Program Managers and hiring leaders to understand technical requirements staffing priorities contract needs and talent-market challenges and translate them into actionable recruiting strategies.
  • Build and maintain pipelines and long-term relationships with qualified passive candidates in the Fort Meade intelligence market.
  • Manage multiple requisitions and hiring priorities in a fast-paced environment while providing timely pipeline updates market intelligence and recommendations to leadership.
  • Support new business capture proposal and program growth efforts by developing staffing strategies and identifying qualified cleared talent ahead of contract requirements.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree and 8-12 years of recruiting/talent acquisition experience; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • Demonstrated experience recruiting technical professionals within the Intelligence Community DoD or National Security market.
  • Experience sourcing and recruiting candidates with TS/SCI clearances and polygraphs preferably within the Fort Meade market.
  • Strong knowledge of full life cycle recruiting including sourcing screening candidate assessment offer negotiation candidate engagement and onboarding.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain networks and pipelines of highly qualified passive technical candidates.
  • Proven success managing multiple requisitions hiring managers and competing priorities in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.
  • Strong communication relationship-management and consultative skills with the ability to influence and partner effectively with candidates hiring managers and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Established recruiting experience and candidate networks within the Fort Meade cleared talent market.
  • Experience recruiting fully cleared technical professionals across software cyber AI/ML cloud DevOps systems engineering SIGINT or related disciplines.
  • Experience supporting Intelligence Community contract staffing program growth proposals recompetes and incumbent capture/transition efforts.
  • Proficiency with Workday ClearanceJobs LinkedIn Recruiter CRM/sourcing platforms and Microsoft Office.
  • Experience using advanced sourcing techniques recruiting analytics market intelligence and talent-pipeline strategies to address difficult-to-fill positions.
  • Working knowledge of OFCCP FLSA and other applicable federal recruiting and employment compliance requirements.
  • Desire to obtain security clearance up to TS/SCI with Polygraph.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:
September 25 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $92300.00 - $166850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) 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.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.

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