{"id":1245568,"url":"https://alion.io/job/leidos-senior-technical-recruiter","title":"Senior Technical Recruiter","company":{"id":7791,"name":"Leidos","domain":"leidos.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/leidos","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":91,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.582,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reston, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":92300,"max":166850,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":166850},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"LinkedIn","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T17:24:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T22:31:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"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.\nThe 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.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nManage full life cycle recruiting across multiple Intelligence Community programs, from intake and sourcing through offer, acceptance, and onboarding.\nDevelop 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.\nProactively identify and engage TS/SCI and polygraph-cleared candidates using ClearanceJobs, LinkedIn, referrals, networking, Boolean search, candidate databases, recruiting events, and other sourcing channels.\nPartner 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.\nBuild and maintain pipelines and long-term relationships with qualified passive candidates in the Fort Meade intelligence market.\nManage multiple requisitions and hiring priorities in a fast-paced environment while providing timely pipeline updates, market intelligence, and recommendations to leadership.\nSupport new business, capture, proposal, and program growth efforts by developing staffing strategies and identifying qualified cleared talent ahead of contract requirements.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of recruiting/talent acquisition experience; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.\nDemonstrated experience recruiting technical professionals within the Intelligence Community, DoD, or National Security market.\nExperience sourcing and recruiting candidates with TS/SCI clearances and polygraphs, preferably within the Fort Meade market.\nStrong knowledge of full life cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, candidate engagement, and onboarding.\nDemonstrated ability to build and maintain networks and pipelines of highly qualified passive technical candidates.\nProven success managing multiple requisitions, hiring managers, and competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.\nStrong communication, relationship-management, and consultative skills with the ability to influence and partner effectively with candidates, hiring managers, and senior leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nEstablished recruiting experience and candidate networks within the Fort Meade cleared talent market.\nExperience recruiting fully cleared technical professionals across software, cyber, AI/ML, cloud, DevOps, systems engineering, SIGINT, or related disciplines.\nExperience supporting Intelligence Community contract staffing, program growth, proposals, recompetes, and incumbent capture/transition efforts.\nProficiency with Workday, ClearanceJobs, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM/sourcing platforms, and Microsoft Office.\nExperience using advanced sourcing techniques, recruiting analytics, market intelligence, and talent-pipeline strategies to address difficult-to-fill positions.\nWorking knowledge of OFCCP, FLSA, and other applicable federal recruiting and employment compliance requirements.\nDesire to obtain security clearance up to TS/SCI with Polygraph.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nSeptember 25, 2026For 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.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5033,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","C4ISR","Defense Manufacturing","Engineering Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:24:57Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T02:13:07Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":166850,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/leidos-senior-technical-recruiter","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/leidos-senior-technical-recruiter.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T02:13:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2237,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2763,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}