JOB TITLE: Junior Data & AI Analyst

Company: Sharp Ideas in Mining (SIIM)

Location: Vancouver, BC (Onsite)

Term: Fulltime contract, minimum 8 months, starting Monday, August 31, 2026, with the possibility of extension

Starting Hourly Wage: $25.00 / hour

About Us

Sharp Ideas in Mining (SIIM) is a small mining consultancy firm supplying technical support to the mining industry.

The Opportunity

We are hiring one junior Data & AI Analyst for our Vancouver team. This is an earlycareer development role. The main draw is close mentorship from the founders and handson exposure to mining terminology, complex problem spaces, and productiongrade software development. If you have solid Python and data skills and want to grow them quick on real problems, this is a good place to do it.

You will learn our stack and our problem space as you go. We want someone with instincts about data, who can look at a dataset and tell which numbers look wrong and which questions it can answer. The requirements below are firm, and we would rather hold the role open than fill it with someone who does not meet them.

What You'll Do

- Help design, implement, and refine mining cost models that feed our core computational engine.
- Extract, clean, and analyze complex mining datasets using Python, PostgreSQL, Excel, and AI/LLM querying.
- Turn experimental analyses into repeatable, documented, productionquality workflows.
- Apply statistics and data modeling to reason about complex datasets and communicate findings clearly.
- Build charts, dashboards, and visualizations that make the data legible to founders and clients.
- Contribute to general engineering and operational tasks, and help maintain sound development workflows.





Over time you will get to know the patterns in the data deeply and take on more of the modeling yourself. You will pick up the specific stack we run, Tauri for GUIs and D3.js for graphs, on the job.

Qualifications

Required

- Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, required for funding reasons, and available for fulltime onsite work in Vancouver.
- Proven, demonstrable experience writing Python.
- Proven experience analyzing real datasets, catching the problems in them, and drawing sound conclusions.
- A strong grasp of applied statistics, calculus, and data modeling.
- Comfort with advanced Excel and building clear data visualizations.
- Excellent written and verbal English.
- A self-starter who adapts when an approach fails, experiments willingly, and works well in a small team.

Preferred

- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, or strong SQL experience you can transfer quickly.
- Understanding of AI fundamentals, including LLMs and agentic workflows, and using them to query and reason about data.
- Roughly 1 to 2 years of relevant experience, or an in-progress degree in a quantitative or technical field. We are flexible on exact background.
- The role is open to everyone. Current postsecondary students are welcome, and co-op enrollment is not required.

To Apply Email your resume to [email protected] along with a short note on why the role interests you. If you are a current post-secondary student, state whether you are applying through a co-op program and include an unofficial transcript.

We review applications as they arrive and hire as soon as we find the right person, so apply early. We read every application ourselves.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

Work Location: In person

📌 Junior Data & AI Analyst (Vancouver)
🏢 Sharp Ideas In Mining
📍 Vancouver