Senior Applied Scientist, Supply

Prolific ·London·Posted 12 June 2026

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Senior Applied Scientist Prolific You'll join Prolific's Supply team, which is responsible for the health and growth of our participant marketplace, the supply side of our two-sided marketplace connecting participants and researchers. This is a senior role on an established Supply Data Science team, focused on marketplace dynamics—in particular driving participant supply, demand, and quality through advanced optimization techniques and recommendation algorithm expertise. You will work closely with existing specialists in this space to design, validate, and scale high-impact algorithmic systems that optimize study matching and participant experience. As a senior scientist, you will lead complex technical directions and help define the right problems to solve, driving both strategy and implementation. The role The Applied Scientist role is new to Prolific. It combines data science, ML, and statistics to build practical systems that drive real business outcomes. This isn't a pure research role, although you may explore papers and explore new ideas. The focus is on turning promising approaches into production-ready solutions. It is also not an ML engineering role: you don't need…

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