WireScreen
Supply Chain
ResearchAssociate
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“Research Associate at WireScreen. Skills: Data enrichment, Industry intelligence, Market insights, Supply chain risk information, Company data curation, Relationship tracing, Ownership tracing, Subsidiary tracing, Affiliation tracing, Risk surfacing, Investment analysis, Sector analysis. Update and refine WireScreen Collections based on rigorous criteria and user feedback. Partner with engineering to ensure data quality, monitor source health, and enforce accuracy guardrails”
What You'll Achieve.
Bring clarity to one of the world’s most complex business landscapes; Build the go-to intelligence platform for navigating global supply chains and China-related risk; Reveal the networks, relationships, and financial ties behind companies; Enable customers to see connections, remove obstacles, and make confident decisions; Make global systems more transparent and secure; Enrich WireScreen data with industry intelligence, Chinese market insights, and relevant supply chain risk information; Develop unique insights into global supply chains, and the connections between key businesses, governments & people powering the global economy; Ensure data quality; Enforce accuracy guardrails; Develop new collections based on customer demand and research capabilities; Verify and ensure data integrity; Consistently delivery high-quality work
Industry & Context.
Analytical skills; Attention to detail; Adapt your approach; Think resourcefully; Pursue alternative paths to overcome investigative challenges
Fluent in English & Mandarin, Able to read and interpret content across Chinese- and English-language sources
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Fluent in English & Mandarin, Able to read and interpret content across Chinese- and English-language sources, 2+ years of experience in investigations, corporate due diligence, business intelligence, forensic research, KYC/AML, or similar primary-source research roles, Technical proficiency and the ability to adapt to new tools and software swiftly, Proven analytical skills and attention to detail
Nice to Have
PhD preferred, Specific ML framework experience, Cloud platform certs
What You'll Do.
Update and refine WireScreen Collections based on rigorous criteria and user feedback
Partner with engineering to ensure data quality
monitor source health
and enforce accuracy guardrails
Educate customer-facing teams on how data collections are built and validated
Partner cross-functionally to scope and develop new collections based on customer demand and research capabilities
Analyze a range of corporate documents in both Chinese and English to verify and ensure data integrity
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering; Partner cross-functionally; Collaborative Research team
Communication Scope
Educate customer-facing teams
Full Job Description
WireScreen is a fast-growing Series A startup bringing clarity to one of the world’s most complex business landscapes. We’re building the go-to intelligence platform for navigating global supply chains and China-related risk—revealing the networks, relationships, and financial ties behind companies so our customers can see connections, remove obstacles, and make confident decisions. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Harpoon Ventures, our team includes a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and senior engineers from Google, Twitter, and Oracle. We launched just three years ago and already have strong traction with top-tier government customers—and we’re just getting started. If you’re excited to make global systems more transparent and secure, now’s the perfect time to join us. Check out this blog https://wirescreen.ai/from-the-ceo/the-essential-database-of-chinese-companies from our CEO on how WireScreen traced DeepSeek’s origins back to 2023—well before it went mainstream in 2025. ABOUT THE ROLE: WireScreen’s Research team sits at the heart of our business. It’s where data comes to life. Research Associates work with our talented engineers to enrich WireScreen data with industry intelligence, Chinese market insights, and relevant supply chain risk information based on a rapidly evolving global economy. This team owns WireScreen Insights, a fundamental differentiator for WireScreen and highly valued by our customers. Researchers curate these structured datasets of companies, people, and relationships by tracing ownership, subsidiaries, and affiliations across borders and jurisdictions. Collections can uncover risks embedded within ownership chains, investors, partners, and suppliers—for example, surfacing military connections—or provide insight into a company’s investments and involvement in specific sectors such as electric vehicle supply chains or the quantum industry ecosystem. Success in this role positions you to develop unique insights into global supply cha
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