The Institute hires sparingly. Each opening exists because a programme has more research demand than capacity. We bias toward operators, researchers, and editors who want to write under their own name and defend their work in public.
Eight resident roles across research, editorial, communications, and operations — plus a rolling open call for non-resident fellows and an academic residency. Every role has a public band; ranges are shared at the first conversation.
Lead a multi-year research thread on the architecture of a real Savings & Investments Union, working closely with the Director of Industrial Policy and our advisory committee of former central bankers.
Lead the Defence Autonomy programme. Build the resident research team, oversee the working-paper pipeline, and steer the post-Vilnius procurement workstream.
Quantitative-leaning role. Lead a portfolio of papers on grids, storage, nuclear, and the southern-European industrial-energy interface.
Junior research role on a fast-growing programme. Owns the European AI Sovereignty Stack quarterly outlook and contributes to working papers on compute, foundation models, and inference.
Lead editor on the institute's weekly briefing and on long-form working papers. Strong sub-editorial discipline; experience with policy and financial copy required.
Owns the convening calendar end-to-end: composition, invitations, logistics, on-site delivery, and the post-event memo cycle. Reports to the Chief Operating Officer.
Lead press relations, manage the spokesperson roster, and own the institute's external communications calendar. Liaises with European and global media on embargoes and coverage.
Owns office operations, contracting, vendor management, and finance liaison.
Two-year non-resident appointments for senior practitioners — former regulators, operators, investors, and military officers — willing to anchor one or two papers per year and serve on a standing committee.
A residency for academic researchers and policy practitioners to spend three to nine months embedded in one of our programmes. Includes a workspace, a stipend, and editorial support to publish.
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Six things we believe distinguish working at the Institute from working at adjacent European policy bodies, in-house government think-tanks, or consulting firms. Two are about how we work; four are about what we publish.
We hire enough people to run five programmes properly, no more. You will know everyone, and everyone will know what you are working on. There is no internal politics to navigate to get a paper read.
Everything you write at the Institute is published under your name. There is no ghostwriting, no anonymous internal memos that never see daylight. You build your own track record in public.
Our convening calendar means resident researchers spend serious time in closed rooms with regulators, central bankers, ministers, and operators. The research feedback loop is unusually fast.
Resident researchers own their own research questions and conclusions. The Institute commits in advance to defend findings that funders or political audiences will dislike.
Resident staff travel regularly across European capitals on convening rotations. The research frontier is the whole continent.
We benchmark compensation against the upper quartile of comparable European institutions. Salary bands per role are published on the careers page when each opening is posted.
Beyond resident hiring, the Institute supports two part-time tracks: a non-resident fellowship for senior practitioners, and an academic residency for visiting researchers. Both publish under their own name and contribute to the Institute's standing committees.
Two-year part-time appointments for senior practitioners — former regulators, operators, investors, central bankers, and military officers — willing to anchor one or two papers per year and serve on a programme standing committee.
A three- to nine-month residency for academic researchers and policy practitioners to spend embedded time inside one of our programmes. Includes a workspace, a stipend, editorial support, and publication under the Institute's masthead.
A six-step process designed to be respectful of your time and to give us real signal on the work. Every step has a defined response window. We commit to written feedback at every stage.
Submit a CV and a one-page note via the careers inbox. We accept rolling applications and do not run timed application windows.
Every application receives a substantive response — yes, no, or hold — within five working days. We do not silently archive applications.
A 45-minute conversation with the Director of the relevant programme. The conversation is about your work, not your CV.
A short, paid written exercise relevant to the role. Typically a two-page memo on a question we are actively working on. We respond to every submitted exercise in writing.
A 90-minute panel with two senior fellows and one operations lead. References checked in parallel; no offer is made before the references conversation.
Offers are made in writing, with the full compensation band, the relevant programme assignment, and a start date. We do not negotiate compensation downwards from the band.
“We are an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on the strength of the work; we do not hire on credentials, nationality, gender, age, or institutional pedigree. ”
We expect everyone who joins the Institute — resident or non-resident — to write under their own name, to defend their published work in public, and to accept that the evidentiary standard for publication is set by the research, not by the political audience.
We commit, in turn, to back you in public when funders, ministries, or media outlets dislike a finding. That commitment is the most important thing the Institute sells; it is also the most important thing we ask new colleagues to protect.
