# Senior Defence Intelligence Analyst (China & Taiwan)

**Company**: Janes
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

Janes is seeking a highly motivated Military Capability Analyst to support its Military Intelligence team with responsibility for China and Taiwan.

The successful candidate will conduct open-source intelligence (OSINT) research, maintain and enhance foundational military datasets, and produce analytical assessments of military capability, force structure, doctrine, readiness, and force development trends.

Key responsibilities:

- Research, verify and maintain military Order of Battle (ORBAT) data for the armed forces of China and Taiwan.

- Update and enhance military equipment inventory datasets, including identification, classification and attribution of platforms, systems and capabilities.

- Maintain and expand military installation data, including bases, headquarters, training facilities, logistics infrastructure and operational sites.

- Produce military capability assessments covering the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and Taiwan Armed Forces.

- Assess military capabilities across land, maritime, air, strategic support and joint force domains.

- Contribute to finished intelligence products, customer-facing research, briefings, webinars and analytical reports.

- Exploit a wide range of Chinese, Taiwanese and international open sources, including official government publications, military media, defence industry reporting, academic literature, satellite imagery and social media.

- Translate, interpret and contextualise Mandarin-language reporting and military documentation.

- Corroborate information across multiple sources and assess source reliability.

- Identify intelligence gaps and conduct targeted research to improve Janes' dataset coverage and analytical understanding.

The ideal skills and experience for this role are:

- Experience conducting OSINT research in defence, security, geopolitical or intelligence-related environments.

- Strong understanding of military organisation, force structure, military equipment and defence terminology.

- Demonstrated ability to synthesise large volumes of information into clear, evidence-based analytical assessments.

- Professional proficiency in Mandarin Chinese (reading required; speaking preferred).

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Education: A Master's degree in one of the following disciplines or a closely related field: International Relations, Strategic Studies, War Studies, Defence Studies, Security Studies, Military History, Intelligence Studies.

Benefits:

- Annual health checkup

- National Pension scheme

- Meal Card (Sodexo)

- Healthy Half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)

- 22 days of annual leave

- Transportation allowance

- Day care / Creche Reimbursement

- Group Medical Claim

- Access to LinkedIn Learning

## Skills

### Required
- OSINT research
- military organisation
- force structure
- Mandarin
- English

### Nice to have
- experience analysing Chinese or Taiwanese military forces
- familiarity with military doctrine
- geospatial research techniques

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