From its academic roots, Aurora Energy Research is a thriving, rapidly growing company, currently serving over 1,000 of the world’s most influential energy sector participants, including utilities, investors, and governments.
While we constantly strive to reach new markets and diversify our product portfolio, we are already active across the globe in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, South Africa and North America, working with leading organisations to provide comprehensive market intelligence, bespoke analytic and advisory services, and cutting-edge software.
We are a diverse team of experts with vast energy, financial, and consulting backgrounds, covering power, hydrogen, carbon, and fossil commodities. With this, we provide data-driven intelligence to fuel strategic decisions in the global energy transformation.
Aurora’s mission is to provide data-driven intelligence to support the energy transition. To support this mission, we are seeking recent and upcoming college graduates to join our Graduate Analyst Programme based in our Austin office.
Aurora has developed a market-leading suite of services which provide analytics and insights to players across the North American power markets – helping to shine a light on developments across the power market and industry.
Our services comprise Power and Renewable Market Services for the major North American power markets. Together, these provide insights on the development of power markets and implications for a range of power assets, as well as policy and strategy across North America.
As a member of our Graduate Analyst Programme, you will apply the skills you have developed through your studies to solve some of our clients’ most interesting and intricate problems.
Through a mix of structured training programmes and on-the-job learning, we will help you take your abilities to the next level, preparing you to build trusted relationships with clients, develop new business opportunities, nurture teams, and communicate complex ideas with crystal clarity.
As a Graduate Analyst, you will have the opportunity to rotate through the following teams over the course of our 18-month programme:
At the end of the programme, you will move into a permanent position within one of our teams.
Advisory
Projects include valuations of energy assets, modelling bespoke scenarios and asset configurations, and conducting analyses to forecast asset economics for investors, banks, developers, and utilities. Besides project valuation work, the Advisory team also works with governments and regulators on designing and evaluating energy policy. While most projects last for around four weeks, some longer projects, such as multi-client studies or longer pieces of policy work, can take a number of months.
Graduate Analysts usually work alongside another Analyst, and project teams are made up of Analysts, a Project Manager, and a Senior Associate providing oversight. Teams are re-formed for each new project, so you will get the chance to work with everyone in the Advisory team for your region.
Research
In the research team, you will contribute to influential industry reports that clients use to stay informed about market and policy activities and to make investment decisions. Each quarter you’ll be updating our latest view of the evolution of the power system to 2060 by modelling energy markets based on the latest assumptions on power demand, commodity prices, market activity, and policy. This involves a combination of desk research and modelling in collaboration with other teams. The Research team also prepares regular subscriber conferences which involve presenting in-depth and timely analysis on a specific aspect of the market.
Research teams focus on a single market and consist of around 2 to 4 Analysts with oversight from Associates, Research Leads, and Market Leads. You’ll work closely with this team throughout the rotation. The reports are read by subscribers from across the industry, including developers, utilities, asset optimisers, system operators, policymakers, regulators, and others.
For recent graduates joining Aurora’s Austin office, we offer an 18-month programme of experience and development designed to provide:
Our Graduate Analyst Programme is open to final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as recent graduates.
Applicants will need to be available to start the programme in July 2027.
Required attributes:
Desirable attributes:
We strongly encourage women and candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply. There is evidence that people from under-represented groups may be less likely to apply unless they meet virtually every selection criterion. We urge candidates who meet at least some of the criteria to consider applying, especially if you are passionate about climate, energy, economics, data analytics, software, strategy, or consulting – there’s a role that’ll fit you at Aurora.
We're committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavourable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.
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