Senior Applied Scientist - Marketplace Optimization

Prolific Academic Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join its Supply Data Science team in the United States. You will drive marketplace dynamics by applying optimization and recommendation algorithms to improve participant matching and experience, while leading strategic technical directions.

You will design production-ready solutions, balancing performance, cost, and practicality, and collaborate with product/engineering to scale high-impact systems in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years applying ML, AI research, optimization, or recommendations to production problems.
• Ability to turn loosely defined problems into hypotheses, experiments, and metrics.
• Comfort with ambiguity and proposing solutions rather than waiting for direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, validate, and scale production algorithmic systems for marketplace matching.
• Lead complex technical directions and define the right problems to solve.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to implement solutions.

Skills

Optimization techniques

Recommendation algorithms

Production ML systems

Python programming

Experimentation & metrics

Education

MSc/PhD in CS/Math/Statistics/Economics/Psychology/ML

Tools

Python

SQL

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join its Supply Data Science team in the United States. You will drive marketplace dynamics by applying optimization and recommendation algorithms to improve participant matching and experience, while leading strategic technical directions.

You will design production-ready solutions, balancing performance, cost, and practicality, and collaborate with product/engineering to scale high-impact systems in a fast-moving environment.