Research Analyst, Data Ops (Chinese Proficiency)
KharonWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Posted November 11, 2025
68000 - 78000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Kharon is a highly disruptive and innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.
Job Description
Kharon is seeking a full-time Research Analyst, Data Ops who must have reading/speaking proficiency in Chinese to join our team based in Washington D.C. The position requires conducting open-source research on foreign affairs and national security issues, analyzing and interpreting data, and contributing to the development of new datasets.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Security Studies, Regional Studies, History, Sociology, or a related field
- Experience with sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, or countering the financing of terrorism
- 2+ years experience in coding languages (Python strongly preferred)
- 1+ year experience in using scraping and data parsing packages (e.g., Selenium, Scrapy, proxies, Captcha BeautifulSoup, pandas, etc.)
- Experience with data analysis, data visualization, and graph databases (Neo4J)
- Understanding of or willingness to learn web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON, etc)
Benefits
- Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision
- FSA program for both medical and dependent care
- 401k + Roth with matching and immediate vesting
- Paid time off + 11 paid holidays
