Staff Data Scientist

• Architect and maintain robust infrastructure to keep critical internal and external biological resources up-to-date and accessible to reasoning agents
• Design sophisticated context retrieval strategies for biological use cases, working with structured, entity-focused data, unstructured RAG, or graph-based representations
• Integrate established bioinformatics/cheminformatics libraries into a GenAI ecosystem, creating interfaces that allow agents to autonomously query and manipulate biological data
• Develop scalable, production-grade systems that serve as the backbone for Recursion's automated scientific reasoning capabilities

You will be at the forefront of reimagining how biological knowledge is generated, stored, accessed, and reasoned upon by LLMs, playing a key role in developing biological reasoning infrastructure that connects large-scale data and codebases with dynamic, agent-driven AI systems to advance drug discovery.

• PhD in relevant field (Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Systems Biology) with 5+ years industry experience, or MS with 7+ years experience
• Proficiency in utilizing major public biological databases (NCBI, Ensembl, STRING, GO) and standard bioinformatics/cheminformatics toolkits (e.g., RDKit, samtools, Biopython)
• Strong skills in designing and maintaining automated data pipelines for continuous ingestion, transformation, and refresh of biological data
• Ability to work with knowledge graph data models and query languages (e.g., RDF, SPARQL, OWL) and translate graph-structured data into other representations

Estimated annual base range of $200,600 - $238,400, plus eligibility for annual bonus and equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package. The company values include acting boldly with integrity, caring deeply and engaging directly, learning actively and adapting rapidly, moving with urgency because patients are waiting, taking ownership and accountability, and being One Recursion through cross-functional collaboration.

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding 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 algorithms to advance the future of medicine.