Mid Level Research Geophysicist Jobs in Illinois

Description

Leidos has an opening for a Mid-level Imagery Analyst to support our customer in St. Louis, MO.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience in traditional and innovative analytical tradecraft and efficient workflows to support a national security customer.

The candidate will work directly with customers and team members and must be able to create, edit, research, evaluate, analyze, and fuse data from multiple sources and datasets to produce current and finished geospatial intelligence products.

The Imagery Analyst will prepare geospatial products and present intelligence assessments to customers and advise leadership of intelligence issues and challenges as appropriate.

Basic Qualifications

• 2-4 years of analysis experience in the Intelligence Community. A relevant BA/BS degree may count toward some of the years’ experience.

• Typically requires a BA degree and 2 - 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 1 -2 years of prior relevant experience.

• Completion of a certified imagery military schoolhouse program or the Geospatial Intelligence Training Program.

• Knowledge of Remote View, IEC, NES, Cedalion and common office software to include PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, word processing.

• Understanding of the intelligence collection process.

• Capacity to adhere to strict deadlines and satisfy customer requirements while working under limited supervision.

• TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain a polygraph.

• Experience with exploiting and interpreting Electronics Intelligence data.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite

• Ability to provide tipping and queuing support.

• Proficient conducting administrative tasks, data searches, data input and retrieval.

• Proficient with Intelligence target folder development.

• Familiar with Intelligence Community workflows.

• Ability to work in a very dynamic and demanding time sensitive work environment.

• Work cooperatively as a team member and provide guidance to analysts to build effective customer relationships.

• Ability to work independently with minimal or no oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working in multidisciplinary teams to develop solutions to problems and deliver those solutions.

• Experience contributing to the creation and/or passing of standard and non-standard intelligence products

• Experience answering time sensitive RFIs.

• Experience incorporating ELINT data into finished intelligence production.         

• Familiarity with NGA systems architecture, including unclassified cloud environments

• GPC-F

• Knowledge of multi-INT sources and capabilities.

• Knowledge of DoD/IC databases and services.

• Ability to provide briefings and communicate with partners across the IC and DoD to modernize and enable intelligence integration.

• Knowledge of DoD and IC missions.

• Familiarity with emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, tools, and methodologies, with an understanding of their applications, implications, and integration into daily geospatial and intelligence workflows.

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Original Posting:July 13, 2026 Pay Range:Pay Range $59,150.00 - $106,925.00

The 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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