OSINT Analyst – Vessel Identification

🕒 August 13

🌐 United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates (UAE), +2 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧐 Analyst

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Kpler

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare

Kpler is a leading provider of real-time data and intelligence in the maritime and energy sectors. The company offers products and services designed to help businesses make informed decisions in commodity trading, energy transition, and maritime logistics. With a robust platform that provides detailed insights into physical markets, power markets, and financial markets, Kpler enables traders, analysts, fleet managers, and logistics professionals to optimize their operations and strategies. The company's tools include ship tracking, cargo inventories, and power market analytics, serving over 10,000 organizations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Adjudicate identifications that automated detection cannot resolve, attaching verified identities to dark, spoofed, or low-confidence contacts • Investigate identity manipulation and evasion, including AIS gaps, GNSS and position spoofing, duplicated or borrowed MMSI, name and flag changes, and vessel substitution • Apply OSINT tradecraft using satellite and optical imagery, ship-photo databases, vessel registries, corporate and beneficial-ownership records, port-state and terminal records, classification and insurance sources, and open reporting • Reconstruct vessel pattern-of-life and ownership over time • Produce structured identification records with traceable sources, explicit confidence levels, and defensible reporting • Feed labelled ground truth and edge cases to the data science team and help define future automation priorities • Uphold sourcing and data-integrity standards, keeping records accurate, current, and trusted • Improve Kpler's unified vessel record for analysts, compliance desks, and government users

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years in intelligence, investigations, maritime analysis, or a related open-source (OSINT) research discipline • Working knowledge of the maritime domain, including vessel types and particulars, AIS, registries, flag and ownership structures, and shipping operations • OSINT tradecraft, including source discovery and evaluation, cross-referencing independent sources, and disciplined handling of uncertainty and provenance • Confidence interpreting satellite, optical, and ideally SAR imagery • Meticulous, evidence-led documentation and clear written assessments • Bachelor's or Master's degree in international relations, security or intelligence studies, maritime studies, geography, data or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Familiarity with sanctions, trade compliance, and evasion typologies • Experience contributing labelled data or ground truth to machine-learning workflows or working alongside a data science team • GIS and geospatial tooling, and comfort with large datasets • Additional languages relevant to major shipping and registry jurisdictions • Ability to corroborate evidence and avoid unsupported claims • Ability to make and defend judgements when information is incomplete • Ability to prioritize investigations under time pressure • Strong written communication for analysts, compliance teams, and senior stakeholders • Curiosity, collaboration, and continuous-improvement mindset

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Equal opportunity employer • Fair, inclusive and diverse work environment