Senior AI Engineer
Recursion
Location
USA
Type
Full-time
Posted
Jan 10, 2026
Compensation
USD 112300 – 112300
Mission
What you will drive
Core responsibilities:
- Architect and implement complex, multi-agent orchestration frameworks and sophisticated AI Agents that autonomously handle business and scientific workflows
- Design and build core internal developer platforms and shared libraries that standardize agent deployment with built-in security and governance
- Drive strategy for autonomous operations and infrastructure-as-code, engineering self-healing systems with minimal human intervention
- Establish observability standards (LLMOps) to debug non-deterministic AI behaviors and prevent recurrence of failure modes
Impact
The difference you'll make
This role creates positive change by designing AI systems that decode biology to radically improve lives, advancing the future of medicine through technology that can fundamentally restructure workflows and drive operational velocity in the TechBio space.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with focus on distributed systems, platform engineering, and production-grade AI solutions
- Mastery of Python and modern software design principles
- Comprehensive command of GenAI stack including advanced RAG strategies, vector store architecture, and memory management
- Expert-level understanding of API design and middleware strategies for secure AI agent integration
- Deep experience with LLMOps, observability, evaluation frameworks, and debugging asynchronous agent workflows
Benefits
What's in it for you
Compensation and benefits:
- Estimated annual base salary range: $112,300 to $163,800
- Eligible for annual bonus and equity compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid work model with office presence required at least 50% of the time
- Values-driven culture emphasizing bold action with integrity, deep care, active learning, urgency, ownership, and collaboration
About
Inside Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company that decodes biology to radically improve lives through its Recursion OS platform, which generates one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets and uses machine learning to advance the future of medicine.