How can an engineer contribute to UX research with limited user access?

Treating UX research as a team sport using engineering assets when participants are scarce. Answers cover: mining logs for proxies; prototyping with internal experts; leveraging sales for intros. RED FLAG: Calling research the researcher's sole job.
Treating UX research as a team sport and closing context gaps when direct user access is limited. A strong response covers: mining logs and support tickets for proxies; building rapid prototypes or fake-door experiments to test with internal experts; instrumenting analytics to quantify pain points; and leveraging engineering networks or support staff for warm introductions. RED FLAG: Treating user research as someone else's job, waiting passively for recruitment, or building features blindly without user signals.
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