{"id":1757003,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bixal-seo-specialist-2","title":"SEO Specialist","company":{"id":2378363,"name":"Bixal","domain":"bixal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bixal","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Schema","truth_index":null},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":75000,"max":85000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":85000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Lighthouse","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Perplexity","optional":false},{"name":"Screaming Frog","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-04T21:07:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T05:16:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":56,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":56},"description":"Important Notice for Applicants:\nAt Bixal, we want to ensure a transparent and secure application process for all candidates. Official communication will come from an email address ending in @bixal.com or from @bixal.na.teamtailor-mail.com. Messages from other sources may be fraudulent, and you should exercise care to avoid any links or attachments included.\nBixal will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.\nNeed Assistance or a Reasonable Accommodation?\n If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, we're here to help. Please reach out to us at  and let us know how we can support you. You do not need to share personal details or disclose the nature of your request. You can expect a response from a team member within 24 hours during the regular work week and on the next operating day during the weekend or holidays.\nWhy Bixal?\nBixal is a consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. Using evidence-based knowledge and technology, Bixal empowers clients to deliver on their missions more effectively by fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.\nOur values:\nPeople-First: Emphasizing the importance of people in all aspects of work.\n\nCollaboration and Transparency: Valuing teamwork and open communication.\n\nGrowth Mindset: Encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.\n\nCreating Lasting Impact: Focusing on meaningful outcomes and positive change.\n\nAbout the role:\nBixal is seeking an SEO (Search Engine Optimization)/GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) Specialist to conduct recurring technical SEO assessments and strengthen the technical health of a large, multi-property federal digital enterprise. In addition to core technical SEO, this role will help the organization adapt its content and information architecture for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), ensuring content is structured, discoverable, and citable across AI-powered answer surfaces (e.g., AI Overviews, conversational assistants, and voice-activated search) as well as traditional search engines. You'll dive into site speed, indexing, structured data, and schema markup work, and partner closely with content, UX, and engineering teams to build SEO/GEO best practices into every stage of the content lifecycle.\nThis project supports a large-scale outreach and engagement effort, delivering strategic communications, content and creative services, digital strategy, and audience engagement across public-facing websites, applications, and social media platforms. The work is paired with the IT, cybersecurity, and data operations needed to keep that digital presence secure, reliable, and available around the clock. The program's mission is to ensure the intended audience receives timely, accurate, and accessible information about the programs, services, and policies that affect them with content and platforms built to scale, adapt to changing needs, and hold up to federal compliance and security standards.\nThis is a full-time position contingent on contract award by our client, with a defined performance period of one year with two one-year option periods. This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with Bixal’s mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. While the role has a fixed duration, we are committed to transparency and collaboration, keeping you informed about contract updates and new opportunities. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our inclusive, purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success.\nLocation\nThis role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.\nCompensation:\nThe salary range for this role is $75,000 - $85,000. In the spirit of transparency, most offers tend to land near the midpoint of the range. We make compensation decisions thoughtfully, considering your experience, the skills you bring, and our commitment to internal equity. Fairness and transparency are core to how we operate.\nResponsibilities:\nConduct monthly technical SEO audits across the client's digital properties, identifying issues such as broken links, indexation errors, slow-loading pages, and content delivery problems.\n\nOptimize content for generative/AI answer engines (e.g., Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT search, Copilot) by structuring content for extractability and monitoring how the client's content is surfaced or cited in AI-generated answers.\n\nCoordinate organic SEO/GEO strategy with the media messaging team to align keyword targeting and messaging across paid search (SEM), programmatic advertising, and owned-channel content (websites, blogs, newsletters).\n\nInclude on-site search functionality as part of daily monitoring of key pages and functions, and support quarterly content certification reviews to ensure content stays accurate, relevant, and discoverable.\n\nPerform page speed optimization, address Core Web Vitals 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algorithm updates and assess impacts to the client's digital properties.\n\nEnsure technical SEO improvements align with federal, DoD, and accessibility requirements.\n\nEstablish and monitor goals, objectives, performance requirements, standards, and accountability with metrics to meet project requirements as well as Bixal standards.\n\nOther relevant duties as qualified/trained to perform\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Web Development, Information Technology, or a related field.\n\nAt least 5 years of experience performing technical SEO for enterprise websites, or equivalent combinationof education and/or experience.\n\nExperience conducting technical audits using tools such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, or equivalent.\n\nExperience optimizing page speed, improving site structure, and applying schema markup.\n\nExperience optimizing email/newsletter platforms (e.g., GovDelivery or similar) and subscription-based content for 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