Developer Research Coordinator supporting MLH’s developer research through participant panels, qualitative analysis, and census studies. Fully remote contract role serving technology companies and developer communities.
Responsibilities
Coordinate research studies from start to finish, including participant invitations, scheduling, reminders, follow-ups, and logistics
Support roughly one substantive study each month, typically involving 10–20 participants
Manage overlapping research stages, including recruiting, active fieldwork coordination, and processing completed research
Clean transcripts, organize responses, tag useful quotes, and identify initial themes and patterns using established LLM-assisted workflows
Critically review AI-generated outputs, verify themes against source material, and flag inaccurate, overstated, or unsupported conclusions
Produce analysis-ready evidence packs for lead researchers
Run the developer panel, including recruitment, onboarding, profile maintenance, participant matching, communication, and participant support
Test onboarding experiences, documentation, code examples, and developer workflows; record confusion or friction
Support the quarterly MLH Census, including processing and initial analysis across thousands of responses
Requirements
Organized and reliable, able to take ownership of defined work and keep it moving independently
Able to manage research participant logistics from beginning to end
Experience using LLMs with qualitative material and critically evaluating outputs
Comfortable navigating developer tools, documentation, GitHub, and code
No particular programming language or technology stack required
Interest in developer tools, developer relations, technical education, online communities, or how people learn and build with technology
Clear, proactive communicator comfortable working independently in a remote environment
Available to overlap with UK working hours for a few hours each workday
Bonus: Experience supporting research studies, surveys, interviews, focus groups, participant panels, or community programs
Bonus: Familiarity with MLH or DEV, community management experience, and comfort writing code or experimenting with developer tools
Benefits
Fully remote opportunity open to candidates globally
Approximately 20 hours per week
Opportunity to learn developer experience research by doing it
Opportunity to support startups and well-known technology brands
Chargé de projet coordonnant l’ingénierie, l’intégration et les fournisseurs pour les programmes d’aéronefs de défense de SOGECLAIR. Gestion des calendriers, budgets, risques et livrables.
Engineering intern building dashboard and productivity features for Sardine’s agentic financial - crime risk platform. Collaborating with stakeholders across implementation, testing, security, and delivery.
Operational Developer improving Sherweb’s cloud IT delivery through DevOps, infrastructure automation, and AI - powered tooling. Supporting secure platforms, CI/CD, and operations teams.
Developer Intern building Go and Rust CLI tools, SDKs, and APIs for 1Password’s cybersecurity platform. Improving developer experience, performance, authentication, and secure secrets handling.
Director of Engineering scaling teams and technology for Ledgebrook’s excess and surplus insurance platform. Shaping architecture, reliability, and engineering strategy across underwriting and operational systems.
Software Engineer building scalable Java and Spring Boot applications for Newfold Digital’s global web technology products. Designing REST APIs, optimizing databases, and supporting cloud operations.
Software Engineer building AI - human workflow and cloud deployment tools at Upsun. Owning production software from design through deployment, reliability, and support.
Advanced Engineering Design Lead managing aerospace structures, integration specialists, budgets, and governance at SOGECLAIR. Supporting aircraft production and in - service issue resolution.
Senior Developer leading design, integration, and modernization of enterprise applications for British Columbia’s energy regulator. Providing technical leadership, DevOps expertise, and mentorship across complex digital initiatives.