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Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
We're taking aim at hundreds of diseases. Our data science team comprises experts in computer science, bioinformatics, physics, biology, mathematics, applied statistics, and more. We work hand in hand with biologists, automation scientists, chemists, software engineers, and many others; our job is to create the tools and methods that will transform our experimental data into treatments for conditions that impair countless lives.
In this role, you will be an analytical and computational expert; you will develop analytical pipelines to address experimental questions, and put them into action to assist different high-throughput data generation and assay development projects.
- Devise strategies in collaboration with biologists, engineers, and data/ML scientists on the future trajectories for advancing, broadening, and scaling the components of Recursion’s biological research platform.
- Investigate new metrics, analyses, or models to provide answers to unresolved biological questions about our data generation processes and subsequent applications.
- Create scalable analytical software tools to assess and relay the data generated by Recursion’s high-dimensional, high-throughput assay platform.
The Team You’ll Join
You'll become part of a multifaceted team proficient in biology, automation engineering, data science, software engineering, and product development. You can expect to be confronted with new scientific fields, high expectations for analytical software development, questions about analytical methods and applications, and lofty aims to industrialize varying aspects of the drug discovery process. Specifically, your team will work on developing and scaling cellular disease models for broad use in many research programs. A daring, collaborative, growth-oriented, and team-first mentality will be crucial for you and your team's success in this phenomenally challenging and thrilling industry.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Applied experience regarding probability, statistics, and machine learning to real-life datasets for academic or business applications and suggestions.
- High proficiency with the Python data stack (numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc).
- Experience in cooperative software development and peer code review, including version control tools like git.
- Experience in developing, releasing, and maintaining software in a continuous-use production environment.
- Experience working in a rapid interdisciplinary team to solve business-related problems and conveying complex concepts and methods to audiences with varied technical backgrounds.
Nice to have: experience in analyzing biological datasets and collaborating with lab research scientists, experience with high dimensional data sets, knowledge of best-practice software development principles applied to scientific code-bases, familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform. .
Leveling
- 3+ years of experience in an industry setting. Experience developing data science methods or tools, or relevant postgraduate experience in a related scientific or engineering field may be sufficient with equivalent experience in the development and application of analytical tools and machine learning in postdoctoral work.
- Data Scientist (-) and Staff Data Scientist (+) levels may be considered for candidates with exceptionally well-matched skills and/or directly relevant experience.
- A history of product development in areas directly related to Recursion’s platform, and/or experience as a technical lead driving execution in these areas is strongly preferred.
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The Values That We Hope You Share:
- We Care: We're concerned about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to help, and their loved ones. Our work also matters to us.
- We Learn: It's crucial for us to learn from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts and from failure. This is how we progress.
- We Deliver: We make no apologies that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. We're in a race against time: we operate at maximum engagement, ensuring sufficient time and space for recovery.
- Act Boldly with Integrity: No company can change the world or reinvent an industry without being bold. This boldness must be balanced, not by timidity, but by doing the right thing when no one is watching.
- We are One Recursion: We function with a 'company first, team second' mindset. Our success comes from operating as one interdisciplinary team.
We dedicate time and effort to linking every aspect of our work to these values. They're not static, but regularly discussed and questioned because our daily decisions are rooted in these values. You can learn more about our values and how we apply them every day .
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio firm at the forefront of the industry by decoding biology to systematize drug discovery. Our mission is enabled by the Recursion OS, a platform that utilizes diverse technologies to continuously expand one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical databases. With advanced machine-learning algorithms, Recursion gleans a collection of trillions of searchable ties across biology and chemistry from its huge dataset, unaffected by human bias. By boasting massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments every week — along with massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most potent supercomputers in the world, Recursion merges technology, biology and chemistry to progress the future of medicine.
Recursion is based in Salt Lake City and is a founding member of BioHive, the collective of the Utah life sciences industry. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Discover more at or connect with us on and .
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
