Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

About Us

Our Digital Modelling Practice is a cornerstone of our Climate, Energy & Environmental Services (CE&ES) division, delivering complex quantitative modeling and impactful economic insights across Europe and the world. We are a team of world-class researchers and modellers dedicated to addressing the most pressing economic and environmental challenges of our time. At the heart of our work lies the GEM-E3 model—a sophisticated Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model used by global institutions such as the OECD, World Bank, European Commission, and others to assess the economic impacts of climate and energy policies and the cost of climate change. Our contributions are featured in IPCC reports, published in top-tier scientific journals, and frequently peer-reviewed at the highest level. At the same time, we provide high-end evidence-based support to national and international organizations.  

The Role

We are looking for a skilled modeller to support our team with model development and scenario-based analysis. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience in analysis, especially in climate-energy-economic systems. The successful applicants will join our modelling teams, working within an international and interdisciplinary environment. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to funded research or consultancy projects, focusing on macroeconomic impacts assessments of climate and energy policies, quantification of climate risks and the development and application of macroeconomic and integrated assessment models. These include climate-energy-economy models with detailed process representations, energy system models, and CGE macroeconomic models like GEM-E3. 

• Review and synthesize scientific, technical, and market reports to inform assessments. 

• Develop modelling tools using GAMS, R, and/or Python. 

• Collect, structure, maintain, and analyze large datasets relevant to energy, economy and environment. 

• Draft technical reports and project deliverables as well scientific publications, and science-policy reports based on this work. 

• Collaborate with other team members to deliver high-quality consultancy services and research. 

Key Competencies and Experience

• MSc or PhD in Engineering, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field. 

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with large datasets and complex models. 

• Proven programming skills in GAMS and/or Python/R is considered a plus. 

• Knowledge of visualization tools (eg Tableau, Looker, Power BI) will be considered a plus  

• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and Word. 

• Excellent written and spoken English  

• Availability to travel to project meetings and conferences. 

• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and diverse environment committed to high-quality research. 

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.