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# Operational Language Analyst 3 - Kanuri

- **Company:** FOUNDATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, LTD.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Signals Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9159652/operational-language-analyst-3-kanuri

## About the Role

We are seeking hungry, humble, and smart teammates to help us grow the company, and we reward meaningful contributions to that growth. We live our Foundational Values of integrity, curiosity, and customer service. We are intentional about our culture and accountable to our employees, offering the generous benefits and flexibility that only a small company can provide.
We also value you as a candidate. We will touch base with you at least monthly throughout your candidacy, so you're never left wondering where you stand in the pipeline., * Top Secret/SCI security clearance

 * Counter-intelligence polygraph with willingness to obtain a full scope polygraph
 * 10 years performing cryptologic language processing, related language, and/or cryptologic experience - QC'ing, mentoring, and demonstrating all lower OLA skills. With at least 6 years in which language tasks were the primary duty.
 * 6 years of experience must be in the language appropriate to the desired role, including the following experiences:
 * 4 years performing cryptologic language processing
 * 3 years translating, transcribing, and gisting
 * 1 year experience QC'ing at ILR level 3 in target language
 * Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of work experience
 * Language test scores taken within the last two (2) years equivalent to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level 3 (minimum) in Listening OR Reading

## Description

* Perform tasks required to process voice and/or graphic language materials in support of SIGINT operations.
 * Demonstrate skills recovering essential elements of information.
 * Render translations and/or transcripts that are complex and sophisticated written and/or spoken material.
 * Gist straightforward, factual written and/or spoken material.