Research Analyst - Energy

About Qualitate

Qualitate is building the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis - replacing weeks of manual research with hours of high-signal output.

Expert research is a broken industry dominated by legacy incumbents with expensive, manual, and slow services. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling expert calls, and synthesizing insights across fragmented providers. The process takes weeks to produce short-lived intelligence.

Qualitate transforms this workflow by autonomously conducting expert discussions at scale using AI. Qualitate’s AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts simultaneously each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. The platform turns these interviews into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

You'll build Qualitate's Energy coverage from the ground up, using Qualitate’s next-generation methodology. Reporting directly to the Director of Research, you'll partner with sector leads to turn first-hand expert insight into data-driven analysis that investors and corporate teams act on.

We're hiring for analytical ability, writing quality, and speed - we’re looking for the desire to turn exposure to the Energy industry into expertise. You'll build upon your knowledge of the space and uncover true depth across the energy value chain in your first year. You'll start in energy, utilities, and clean energy, and the work will naturally pull you into adjacent ground: grid infrastructure, industrial capex cycles, commodities, the physical layer behind AI.

Ultimately, you'll bring the Qualitate methodology to energy’s most in-demand sectors - with the same approach that has already been successful in revolutionizing primary research in several other industries.

• Leverage the company's proprietary datasets to build company and market analyses across energy, utilities, clean energy, and oil & gas - working under a sector lead at first and increasingly carving out your own niche.
• Turn data collection studies into client-ready outputs: quantified findings, charts, scorecards, and written takeaways that drive value for investors and corporate clients.
• Develop forward-looking analyses and uncover industry dynamics, key growth drivers, and demand shifts across themes including electrification and grid buildout, generation mix, load growth from data centers and industrial customers, and the real economics of the energy transition.
• Contribute thought leadership by creating high-impact content for our newsletter and client communications.
• Support and learn to lead client & prospect conversations through calls, webinars, and events.
• Contribute research judgement to hone the fidelity of our first-to-market research methodology; partner with product and engineering teams on design to continue the creation of our best-in-class AI-native research platform.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends, technologies, and innovators shaping the future of energy systems - from SMRs and clean generation to grid modernization, storage, and more.

• 1-3 years professional experience in data-driven research creation. Equity research, financial analysis, market research, and/or consulting roles. Must have exposure to energy, utilities, or industrials.
• You understand the fundamental research workflow - how funds source ideas and build conviction through data and primary research - or you are eager to learn it quickly.
• Genuine curiosity about how energy systems actually work. You should find it energizing to work across the full value chain - generation, transmission and distribution, utilities, and the industrial customers consuming the power…