# Research Associate

About the Position Based in Tokyo, you will be a key member of Aurora’s Japan Research team, delivering high-quality research and insight on Japan's power and energy markets to our public and private sector clients. You will support all aspects of client engagement: helping identify issues, forming hypotheses, conducting analysis, synthesising conclusions into recommendations and presenting to senior clients. You will develop data-based strategic insights into the energy transition for both public and private sector clients. You will work in a dynamic, stimulating, and supporting environment. You will apply your interpersonal skills to build connected, co-operative project teams, and will have opportunities to substantially influence the thinking of organisations across the energy sector. Over time, you will be able to grow into an industry expert under the guidance of directors and team leads with deep experience addressing major strategic issues in global energy markets. The position suits an experienced analyst or associate from a strategic or economic consultancy, energy company, financial services company, or knowledge-focused firm or institution. You will combine technical a

- **Id**: 2439531
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aurora-energy-research-research-associate>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Chūō, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-12T11:43:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T12:42:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 29
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4432
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Market Research, Management Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 668738
- **Name**: Aurora Energy Research
- **Domain**: auroraer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/auroraer>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 25000
- **Max usd**: 60000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1032

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 29

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: Japanese; Level: All levels; Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-13T11:43:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.719
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 28
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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