The Impact You’ll Make
At Recursion, we are reimagining drug discovery through a powerful synthesis of AI, automation, and deep scientific expertise. In this role, you will be the bridge between complex chemical data and the strategic systems that power our discovery programs. Your primary focus will be building the tools and infrastructure that support our computational designers and medicinal chemists in making data-driven decisions for the next steps in discovery programs. You will expose analytics that help us further automate the platform by closing the Design-Make-Test-Learn (DMTL) loop to accelerate the design process.
You will have high-level ownership of our analytical ecosystem—including the Spotfire library, data schemas, and automation services—transforming complex datasets into directed platform improvements. You will be at the center of our DMTL loop, creating the tools that empower our scientists to design novel, high-quality drug candidates with unparalleled speed and precision. Your work will directly accelerate our portfolio, drive our partnerships, and contribute to our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.
In this role, you will:
- Build and maintain integrated project dashboards that serve as a core resource for design teams by syncing assay results with cross-functional portfolio data.
- Code and manage robust repositories for Spotfire automation and BigQuery integration to streamline the flow of data across the discovery lifecycle.
- Design and evolve metrics and predictive modeling workflows that inform "next-best" design recommendations and track project progress through the discovery lifecycle.
- Create automated reporting pipelines to proactively surface critical signals, ensuring project teams can take timely action on new scientific data.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate strategic objectives into scalable analytical tools, using adoption metrics to prioritize features that deliver the greatest impact.
- Define and analyze metrics for product success, tool adoption, and scientific impact to ensure teams are focused on critical priorities for accelerating drug discovery.
- Identify and innovate on gaps in analytics maturity, taking responsibility for implementing solutions that modernize how our scientists interact with data.
- Contribute to the development of Agentic AI systems that leverage our data infrastructure to automate and enhance the understanding of Structure-Activity Relationships (SAR).
The Team You’ll Join
You will be a core member of the Design Workflow team, an interdisciplinary group responsible for the end-to-end development and operation of our molecular design platform. We are the orchestration engine for the Hit-to-Lead (H2L) and Lead Optimization (LO) phases of drug discovery. Our team embodies a “Build & Operate” philosophy, intentionally integrating the development of the Recursion OS with its direct application in advancing our portfolio.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Expert-level proficiency in TIBCO Spotfire development, including experience managing automation services and measuring tool adoption through action logs.
- Advanced engineering foundation in Python, BigQuery, and Prefect, with a track record of maintaining production-level repositories via Git.
- Experience in a major cloud provider (Google Cloud Platform preferred) to support scalable data infrastructure.
- Scientific domain knowledge of the drug discovery lifecycle and the specific data products required to support end-to-end chemist workflows.
- Proven ability to synthesize data from multiple domains—such as lab informatics, chemistry, and portfolio management—into clear, execution-ready recommendations.
- Exceptional systems-thinking and communication skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex scientific workflows and identify key leverage points.
- Practical experience with AI/ML frameworks applied to drug discovery and the development of agentic systems to automate complex scientific reasoning and SAR analysis.
- Degree in a relevant field (Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Engineering, or Computer Science) with significant professional experience in a biotech or pharmaceutical R&D setting.
Working Location & Compensation:
This is an office-based, hybrid role in our London office. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is £86,300 to £115,500. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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The Values We Hope You Share:
- We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
- We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
- We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
- We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
- We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
- We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.
Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.
More About Recursion
Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
