Jobs at Recursion
Recursion is a biotech company that uses machine learning and high‑throughput chemistry to accelerate drug discovery. Founded in 2015, it has become known for its data‑driven platform that predicts molecular properties and optimizes lead compounds at scale.
Recruitment at Recursion spans software engineers, data scientists, chemists, and clinical researchers. Engineers typically work on scalable cloud pipelines, while data scientists build predictive models for drug‑target interactions. Candidates can expect rigorous technical interviews, collaborative cross‑disciplinary teams, and opportunities to see their code or models directly influence research outcomes.
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Sr Director, Total Rewards and Systems
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 13, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. LI-LM1 The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress. At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. We also care about our work.
Director, In Vivo Technologies
Company: Recursion
Location: South Bay
Posted Dec 03, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. The Preclinical Sciences team encompasses in vivo pharmacology, vivarium operations, DMPK/BA, discovery formulations, and analytical chemistry. The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. 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.
Senior Scientist, DMPK
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 13, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. You will work closely with colleagues in Medicinal Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology and others. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. More About Recursion Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets.
Senior/Staff DevOps HPC Engineer
Company: Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Nov 23, 2023
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. Prior experience mentoring, guiding, and cross-training team members. Experience in building, installing, and supporting user-requested software. Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, configuration management, monitoring, and systems tools. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Extensive experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality.
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Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 05, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. 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. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. More About Recursion Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery.
Staff Computational Biologist
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Feb 29, 2024
The job posting describes a position in Recursion's internal pipeline team, where the successful candidate will lead computational efforts on drug discovery programs. The role involves working with diverse datasets, designing experiments, and collaborating with various teams to bring promising discoveries to pre-clinical development. The ideal candidate should have a PhD in a relevant field with 3+ years of experience in applying computational methods to biological and clinical data. The role offers opportunities for growth, leadership, and mentorship, with a competitive compensation package.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manager - Finance
Company: Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Nov 22, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. 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. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets.
VP, Business Development & Corporate Initiatives
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 16, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. LI-LM1 LI-Remote The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. 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. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work.
Engineering Manager, HTA
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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. Our current tech stack uses JavaScript, React, Python, Golang, Kafka, Cloud Composer, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes, on cloud services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. LI-CP1 The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. A people-first mindset. We also care about our work. We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
Senior Scientist, DMPK
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Nov 18, 2023
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Senior Scientist, DMPK, to accelerate drug discovery programs and contribute to clinical development. The role involves deploying ADME and PK assessments, developing predictive tools, producing regulatory documents, and mentoring junior staff. The position is based in Salt Lake City and offers competitive compensation and benefits. Recursion values care, learning, delivery, bold integrity, and unity.
Winter Intern, Financial Reporting
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Workiva, XBRL, and other software a plus. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Knowledge of Excel, Word and Powerpoint. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. We also care about our work. LI-DB1 The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones.
Staff Software Engineer
Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted Dec 02, 2023
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our current tech stack includes: Python, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Large Language Models and basic MLOps. A people-first mindset. The Values That We Hope You Share: We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. Experience working on applications that enable the discovery, visualization, query, and processing of large datasets. We also care about our work.