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Prolific

prolific.com · B2B · Prolific helps AI developers, researchers, and organizations easily access the highest-quality human data. Sign up for free.

31open roles
5new in 30 days
6closed in 30 days
12remote-eligible
steadyhiring velocity

What they're building

Core human data platform engineering strong signal

Today: Prolific connects researchers, AI developers and product teams with real people who take part in studies online (Prolific website).

Roles: Senior Product Engineer · Senior Product Engineer II · Engineering Manager · Cloud Platform Engineer

Requirements mention: 'Python', 'Django Rest Framework', 'Celery', 'EventBridge' (Senior Product Engineer, New York City (Hybrid)) · 'Container-based and Serverless architectures', 'CircleCI' (Senior Product Engineer, New York City (Hybrid)) · 'distributed cloud-based applications', 'highly available' (Engineering Manager) · 'GKE', 'ArgoCD', 'Terraform', 'self-service solutions', 'golden paths' (Cloud Platform Engineer)

Inference: product and platform engineering roles in the UK, the US and Mexico point to continued build-out of the core participant and data collection product and the infrastructure under it.

Specialised participant pools for AI and research work strong signal

Today: Data from Prolific's pool of verified and diverse participants (Prolific website).

Roles: Senior Human Data Operations Partner, AI · Human Data Operations Partner, Research · Participant Recruitment Partner/Sourcer

Requirements mention: 'domain-specific task curation', 'assessment and certification programmes' (Senior Human Data Operations Partner, AI, North America) · 'participant onboarding', 'quality management' (Senior Human Data Operations Partner, AI, United States) · 'verification processes for domain experts', 'high-volume sourcing strategies' (Participant Recruitment Partner/Sourcer, United States) · 'participant recruitment', 'data labelling', 'annotation' (Human Data Operations Partner, Research)

Inference: six Human Data roles across the UK, the US, North America and Mexico suggest they are expanding and certifying pools of domain-expert participants for AI labelling and evaluation work.

Human data quality measurement systems moderate signal

Today: Prolific's human data infrastructure provides the high-quality, diverse data required to train the next generation of AI models (Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team), posting text).

Roles: Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team) · Human Data Quality Analyst, AI Business

Requirements mention: 'calibration', 'inter-rater agreement', 'drift detection' (Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team), United Kingdom) · 'RLHF', 'LLM evaluation', 'red teaming' (Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team), Mexico) · 'quality frameworks', 'automated checks', 'dashboards' (Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team), United Kingdom) · 'data-quality pipeline', 'rule-based, LLM, and ML assisted approaches' (Human Data Quality Analyst, AI Business)

Inference: they appear to be setting up a new quality function for human-labelled data. The evidence is three 'Founding Team' engineer postings in the UK, North America and Mexico.

Managed services and AI evaluation projects, including agent evaluation moderate signal

Today: Prolific's human data infrastructure provides the high-quality, diverse data required to train the next generation of AI models (Strategic Projects Lead, Managed Services, posting text).

Roles: Strategic Projects Lead, Managed Services · Forward Deployed Researcher · Senior Software Engineer (Agent Training and Evals)

Requirements mention: 'managing complex client projects or programmes', 'delivery performance', 'profitability' (Strategic Projects Lead, Managed Services, Mexico) · 'AI-assisted or model-in-the-loop workflows', 'rubric design', 'RL environments' (Forward Deployed Researcher) · 'integrating and evaluating AI models or agents', 'MLOps', 'Langfuse' (Senior Software Engineer (Agent Training and Evals))

Inference: client-delivered AI evaluation and data collection projects are an active hiring area. The agent-evals engineering role suggests they are building a platform to evaluate AI agents against human expertise.

Participant marketplace supply health, matching and participant experience moderate signal

Today: A two-sided marketplace connecting participants and researchers (Senior Applied Scientist, Supply, posting text).

Roles: Senior Data Analyst - Supply · Senior Applied Scientist, Supply · Lead Product Designer

Requirements mention: 'Advanced SQL', 'experimentation analysis', 'operational experiments' (Senior Data Analyst - Supply, United Kingdom) · 'study matching', 'recommendation systems', 'production-ready solutions' (Senior Applied Scientist, Supply, London) · 'participant modeling platforms', 'Human Data Ops' (Lead Product Designer, Remote, UK)

Inference: they appear to be investing in study matching and participant supply health as demand grows, which is the posting's own wording.

Data Collection Tooling and integrations for AI model developers moderate signal

Today: Prolific's Data Collection Tooling product suite (Senior Product Manager - AI, posting text).

Roles: Senior Product Manager - AI · Senior Product Designer

Requirements mention: 'AI-native products and UX', 'Data Collection Tooling', 'strategic integrations' (Senior Product Manager - AI, UK Hybrid) · 'APIs', 'CLIs', 'MCPs' (Senior Product Manager - AI, UK Hybrid) · 'APIs', 'developer tools' (Senior Product Designer, Remote, UK)

Inference: they are developing developer-facing interfaces (APIs, CLIs, MCPs) for the Data Collection Tooling suite and bespoke integrations for large AI clients.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Services8
Engineering6
Data & AI5
Human Data4
Product & Design3
Marketing2
Sales1
Customer Success1
People1

Of 28 open roles, Engineering has 7, Human Data 6, Services 6, Data & AI 4, Product & Design 3, Sales 1 and Marketing 1, with the largest location counts in Remote, UK (8) and Mexico (4).

Who they need

Seniority: Mostly senior: 20 of 28 roles are senior, with 2 manager, 1 VP, 3 mid, 1 junior and 1 unknown.

Skills named most: Python (14), Kubernetes (11), GitHub Actions (9), Vue.js (8), Celery (7), EventBridge (7), CircleCI (7), MongoDB (7), DynamoDB (7), annotation (7), Datadog (6), SQL (6)

Locations: Remote, UK (8); Mexico (4); United Kingdom (3); United States (3); North America (2); New York City (Hybrid) (1); Hybrid, Mexico City (1); UK Hybrid (1); London (1); New York (1); Remote, San Francisco (1); 11 of 28 roles are remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Start with the Remote, UK roles and the Mexico roles if your Python, SQL or Kubernetes experience matches the listed requirements. Most Mexico roles are not marked remote, so check location and hard requirements in each posting before applying.

If you're selling or recruiting: Engineering (7), Human Data (6) and Services (6) hold most open roles. Platform engineering, participant operations and the new quality team are the clearest buyers of hiring help. Sales and Marketing have one role each and are the weakest signal.

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Open roles (31)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Senior Product Engineer EngineeringRemote, UK (remote)2026-10-23
Data Analyst - SupplyData & AIUnited Kingdom2026-10-22
Research Consultant ServicesNew York2026-10-16
Research Consultant ServicesRemote, US (remote)2026-10-16
Cloud Platform EngineerEngineeringRemote, UK (remote)2026-10-07
Senior Product Engineer EngineeringNew York City (Hybrid)2026-09-23
Human Data Operations Partner, ResearchHuman DataUnited Kingdom2026-09-23
Senior Human Data Operations Partner, AIHuman DataNorth America2026-09-23
Strategic Projects Lead, Managed ServicesServicesUnited States 2026-09-18
Senior Product Engineer IIEngineeringRemote, UK (remote)2026-09-08
Strategic Projects Lead, Managed ServicesServicesMexico2026-09-04
Strategic Account ExecutiveSales(Remote) San Francisco (remote)2026-08-27
Engineering ManagerEngineeringRemote, UK (remote)2026-08-10
Senior Product Manager - AIProduct & DesignUK Hybrid2026-08-07
Senior Product Engineer EngineeringHybrid, Mexico City 2026-08-04
Senior Data Analyst - SupplyData & AIUnited Kingdom2026-07-30
Lifecycle Marketing Manager- 3month FTCMarketingNew York2026-07-24
Lifecycle Marketing Manager - 3month FTCMarketingRemote, UK (remote)2026-07-24
Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team) ServicesUnited Kingdom2026-07-21
Data EngineerData & AIRemote, UK (remote)2026-06-29
Senior Applied Scientist, SupplyData & AILondon2026-06-12
Lead Product DesignerProduct & DesignRemote, UK (remote)2026-04-02
Senior Product DesignerProduct & DesignRemote, UK (remote)2026-01-30
Participant Recruitment Partner/SourcerHuman DataMexico ( remote) (remote)2026-01-22
Participant Recruitment Partner/SourcerHuman DataUnited States2026-01-22
Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team) ServicesNorth America2026-01-12
Human Data Quality Analyst, AI BusinessServicesMexico2026-01-06
Human Data Quality Engineer (Founding Team) ServicesMexico2026-01-06
Strategic Customer Success ManagerCustomer SuccessHybrid, SanFrancisco 2025-10-31
Analytics EngineerData & AIRemote, UK (remote)2025-04-08
Talent Acquisition Lead, ProductPeopleLondon, England, United Kingdom2025-01-06