Senior Applied Scientist, Supply
Prolific · London · Prolific - Remote UK
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead marketplace optimization for participant supply, demand and quality.
- Design and scale study-matching algorithms improving participant experience.
- Drive strategy for human behavioral data powering more aligned AI.
What they offer
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Remote working
- Access to unique human data platform
Ideal candidate
A pragmatic, self-starting scientist who thrives on ambiguous marketplace problems and cares about turning sound methods into practical, production-ready impact.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in mathematical optimization and recommendation algorithms for large-scale matching or marketplace problems
- Judgement on when to use simple statistics, classical ML, LLMs, or agentic approaches
- 5+ years applying ML, AI research, optimization, or recommendation systems to complex production problems
- Python skills to build, test and iterate on working prototypes independently
- Ability to turn loosely defined product problems into clear hypotheses, experiments and metrics
- Comfortable with ambiguity and proactively proposing solutions
- Experience working alongside product and engineering teams
- remote policy
- remote working
Lab profile
About Prolific
Human data infrastructure providing high-quality, diverse human-generated data for AI training.
What they build
- Human data infrastructure platform
- Global research participant pool
Known for
- High-quality diverse human-generated data
- Ethically curated global participant base
- Built for AI model training
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