Graduate Researcher: Geospatial Analytics & Data Systems

PremierAgile Consulting Private Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) invites applications for a Graduate Researcher, Geospatial Analysis and Data Systems, based in Sydney. In this full-time 12-month contract, you will help build IEP's satellite analysis programme and maintain its internal data infrastructure, including the MCP connector, data ingestion and Azure deployments.

Start late 2026 or early 2027. You will work with researchers across teams, developing processing pipelines, validating measures from imagery, and

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative field.
• Strong programming ability in Python, including the scientific and data stack.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases; PostgreSQL preferred.
• Sound understanding of statistics and quantitative research methods.
• Ability to take a loosely defined problem, scope it and deliver a working result with limited supervision.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain technical methods to non-technical colleagues.
• Interest in peace, conflict and development research.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design and prioritise satellite analysis projects.
• Acquire, preprocess and manage satellite imagery and derived products.
• Develop and validate methods for extracting peace- and development-relevant measures from imagery.
• Build reproducible processing pipelines and document methods.
• Produce analysis, figures and written findings for IEP reports and partner deliverables.
• Ingest, clean, harmonise and document new datasets in internal database.
• Maintain and extend the database schema, codebook and data quality checks.
• Maintain and improve the MCP connector and tooling.
• Support automated pipelines behind IEP's indices and publications.
• Manage deployments and data workflows on Azure.
• Build and maintain internal AI workflows.
• Collaborate with researchers across offices.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

Statistics

Data cleaning

Communication skills

Problem solving

Peace and development research

Education

Master's degree or higher in computer science, data science, geography, statistics, economics or related quantitative field

Tools

GDAL

rasterio

GeoPandas

QGIS

Google Earth Engine

Azure

MCP servers

Job description

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) invites applications for a Graduate Researcher, Geospatial Analysis and Data Systems, based in Sydney. In this full-time 12-month contract, you will help build IEP's satellite analysis programme and maintain its internal data infrastructure, including the MCP connector, data ingestion and Azure deployments.

Start late 2026 or early 2027. You will work with researchers across teams, developing processing pipelines, validating measures from imagery, and