The Impact You’ll Make
As a key member of Recursion's portfolio-facing data science team, you will be at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery from first principles using Recursion’s massive data and compute capabilities. You will be the primary computational lead for multiple early stage drug discovery programs and will be expected to define and execute on a research strategy that uses platform data to advance the most promising opportunities through to our internal lead optimization portfolio.
You will be responsible for the evaluation of therapeutic hypotheses using internal and external data to validate the link between proposed targets and disease biology, guide multimodal SAR, decipher drug mechanism of action, and identify candidate biomarkers to measure in early translational studies. This is a highly collaborative role: you will partner with biologists, medicinal chemists, platform and data engineers, and product experts to develop and scale methods that bring patient connectivity to the forefront of our early medicines portfolio.
The ideal candidate has strong stakeholder management, the ability to independently scope and prioritize with ambiguous or conflicting information, and strength in taking a portfolio strategy view. Exceptional candidates will be considered for Principal level positions.
In this role, you will:
- Evaluate the molecular evidence for therapeutic hypotheses and accelerate drug program progression into the clinic
- Architect quantitative analyses and experiment cascades that combine diverse datasets to drive key program decisions
- Pilot novel methods for patient stratification and indication selection or expansion
- Deliver biological insights on therapeutic candidates and disease biology from the analysis of high dimensional (phenomics, transcriptomics, patient-derived) datasets that support proof of concept model selection and asset prioritization
- Present data analysis to decision makers and stakeholders in a clear and compelling way that drives toward getting medicines to patients
- Industrialize analysis approaches to not only solve for the current project, but also accelerate future projects and scale the impact that we can have
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Recursion’s data science, platform, ML and clinical teams to further advance Recursion’s ability to interpret and translate large-scale data assets into therapeutic programs
The Team You’ll Join
Our group is a bold, agile, diverse collective of computational drug discovery scientists deeply focused on the singular goal of bringing new therapeutics into the clinic at an accelerated pace. You will work extensively with scientists across the organization to advance milestones, provide insights, and drive decisions that advance Recursion’s capabilities and increase our likelihood of success. Essential attributes for this role include a bold, execution-first attitude and passion for deploying rigorous science to develop life-changing medicines.
We partner closely with biologists and medicinal chemists to design and execute decisional data analysis for multiple programs. We are responsible for data strategy across the portfolio and are supported by computational leadership in designing scalable and reproducible experiments that advance multiple programs at once. Our team works closely with computational biologists in other therapeutic areas (neurobiology, immunology and inflammatory diseases, etc.) as well as data scientists and engineers from our core platform teams to provide a strong network of feedback and support.
The Experience You’ll Need
- PhD in a relevant field (computational biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, cancer biology, immuno-oncology, etc.) with a very strong computational focus and 5+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry OR MS in a relevant field and 7+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry solving fundamental problems in oncology or drug discovery
- Experience with two or more disease indications (can be two within oncology); strong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease relevant pathways
- Experience in early target discovery, hit identification and hit-to-lead stage gates
- Experience applying computational methods (including probabilistic, statistical, and/or machine learning techniques) to analyze and integrate complex biological and/or human clinical data in a high level programming language such as Python or R
- Deep expertise in the analysis and data integration of two or more ‘omics data modalities (phenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genomics) including experience with matched clinical and molecular patient data
- Exceptional data visualization skills
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including an ability to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences using a combination of plots, documents, and presentations
Nice To Have:
- Experience analyzing data from imaging-based modalities
- Experience prioritizing compounds during SAR and lead optimization cycles
Working Location & Compensation:
This is an office-based, hybrid role in either our Salt Lake City, UT or New York City, NY offices. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
Relocation support can be provided for this role. 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: $200,600 - $238,400. 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.
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What We Do
We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science and engineering to industrialize drug discovery. We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build the next-generation biopharmaceutical company. It’s complex biology, decoded. While we are united in a common mission, Decoding Biology to Radically Improve Lives, our greatest strength lies in our differences: expertise, gender, race, disciplines, experience, and perspectives. Deliberately building and cultivating this culture is critical to achieving our audacious goals. We are proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Why Work With Us
We are the leading AI/ML-driven drug discovery company, running +1.5 million experiments every week as we develop a map of human biology. This approach has created one of the largest, broadest and deepest pipelines of any technology-enabled drug discovery company.
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