Developer Research Coordinator (Contract)

About the role

MLH’s Developer Intelligence Network bridges the gap between what technology companies assume will work and what developers can understand, adopt, and use. As a Developer Research Coordinator you will help make that research possible by coordinating studies, managing the developer participant panel, and turning raw research material into organized, analysis‑ready evidence. You’ll learn developer experience research on the job while supporting companies ranging from startups to world‑known technology brands.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate research studies, including participant invitations, scheduling, reminders, follow‑ups, and other logistics from start to finish.
• Support roughly one substantive study each month, typically involving 10–20 participants.
• Keep overlapping stages of research moving, including recruiting for upcoming studies, coordinating active fieldwork, and processing recently completed research.
• Clean transcripts, organize responses, tag useful quotes, and identify initial themes and patterns using established LLM‑assisted workflows.
• Review AI‑generated outputs critically, verify themes against the source material, and flag conclusions that are inaccurate, overstated, or unsupported.
• Produce an analysis‑ready evidence pack for each study that the lead researcher can interpret and turn into final findings.
• Run the developer panel day to day, including recruitment, onboarding, profile maintenance, participant matching, regular communication, and responding to participant questions.
• Test onboarding experiences, documentation, code examples, and developer workflows, recording points of confusion or friction.
• Support the quarterly MLH Census, including processing and conducting initial analysis across thousands of responses.

Requirements

• Organized and reliable, with the ability to take ownership of a defined piece of work and keep it moving without being chased.
• Able to manage research participant logistics from beginning to end.
• Experienced using LLMs to work through qualitative material and able to evaluate their output critically rather than accepting it at face value.
• Comfortable navigating developer tools, documentation, GitHub, and code well enough to understand what research participants are describing (specific programming language expertise not required).
• Genuinely interested in developer tools, developer relations, technical education, online communities, or how people learn and build with technology.
• Clear, proactive communicator who is 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.

Compensation

The hourly rate will vary by location and will reflect the successful candidate’s experience and local market.

Schedule

Weekly commitment: 20 hours per week. Must overlap with UK working hours for a few hours each workday.

Location

This is a fully remote opportunity open to candidates globally.