OSINT Analyst - Vessel Identification
Kpler · Hybrid
MeritLog read this listing from Kpler's Lever job board and last checked it on September 10, 2026.
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Job details
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Salary
- Not listed by source
- Location
- United Kingdom; Dubai; United States; Greece
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Job description
Automated detection can find vessels, but cannot always tell you which vessel it is. When a contact appears in a satellite image with no matching AIS, when an identity has been spoofed or duplicated, when a name and IMO do not agree, or when the models simply return low confidence, a human analyst has to resolve it. As an OSINT Analyst on Kpler's Maritime Domain Awareness team, you are the adjudication layer behind the machine. You take the detections that automated identification cannot confidently resolve and attach an identity to them: name, IMO, owner, operator, and flag, with the evidence and the confidence to stand behind it. You investigate dark vessels, AIS gaps, GNSS spoofing, and identity manipulation, and you reconstruct the ownership and behaviour that explains what a vessel is really doing. Your work does two things at once. It makes Kpler's unified vessel record more complete and more trusted for the analysts, compliance desks, and government users who depend on it. And it creates the labelled ground truth that makes the detection models better, so the routine cases keep shrinking and human attention stays on the genuinely hard ones.
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