Network Analyst - Junior

We're looking for someone to help design and grow Ember's network. You'll find route opportunities, build the timetables that run them, and use data to make every part of the network work better. Your background matters less than your ability to think clearly, work in the real world as well as in code, and hold yourself to a high standard. About Ember We're building the future of public transport — convenient, affordable, connected and zero-emission. Our goal is to make it easier and more enjoyable to get from A to B with Ember than it is with your own car. Ember is a tech company, not a traditional bus operator. We've built a platform that coordinates our entire operation – everything from monitoring vehicles and controlling chargers to selling tickets and calculating ETAs. This allows us to use electric buses more intensively than anyone else in the world, leading to a massive reduction in emissions. It also helps us provide a much better passenger experience, with innovative features like demand-responsive stops. We’re still tiny, with a handful of routes and 98 buses. The challenge is to scale this 50x whilst staying lean, increasing efficiency and delivering an even better product experience. We’ve recently raised a Series A from some of Europe’s leading climate VCs and are looking for mission-driven individuals who want to get on board and help take us to the next level. The role This is a broad, hands-on role where you'll work across the full lifecycle of a route — from spotting an opportunity on a map to launching it, then making it better once it's running. We're a small team with a lot of ownership on offer. If something needs figuring out, you figure it out. Finding new routes means going deep on Google Maps, researching existing transport alternatives, getting out into the real world to test ideas, and engaging with local communities to understand what they actually need. You'll need to know what's possible with our fleet of electric coaches and charging infrastructure, and to be comfortable trading off the most attractive-looking route design against the efficient use of those assets. The best route on paper isn't always the best route to run. We don't build traditional clock-face timetables that ignore traffic patterns. Ours are probabilistic, accounting for how the use of each stop varies across days, weeks and seasons. You'll design them, take them through council consultation and registration with the Traffic Commissioner, and make sure the resulting service information ends up in the right places — everywhere from Google Maps to the paper timetables in bus shelters. A great timetable is only the start. You'll work alongside our operations and charging teams to make sure we've hired and trained the right number of drivers, that there are decent rest facilities where they can take breaks, that we have enough vehicles to run the route, and that the charging will be there when it's needed. You won't do any…