Compound Management Scientist

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Compound Management Scientist at Recursion, you will be a key contributor to our mission to accelerate drug discovery. By ensuring that compounds flow seamlessly through our highly automated ecosystem, your work will directly bridge the gap between compound logistics and our advanced automation cells. By ensuring high-quality, assay-ready reagents are delivered rapidly to our screening scientists, you will help us move toward a future of 24/7, unattended, autonomous discovery.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining the Compound Management team, a collaborative group at the heart of our discovery engine. This team is responsible for the critical task of provisioning drug candidates and reagents for our R&D laboratories, working daily with state-of-the-art robotic platforms and laboratory automation.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field
• Proven experience in a compound management or sample management role within a pharmaceutical or biotech environment
• Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with automated liquid handlers
• Experience with automated platforms is a strong plus
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple requests and timelines while maintaining high data quality standards
• A passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and the ability to adapt to changing priorities

Working Location & Compensation:

This is a full-time lab-based position at our office located in Milton Park, Abingdon, UK. 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 £52,000 to £57,800 (GBP). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity.
• We care deeply and engage directly.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting.
• We take ownership and accountability.
• We are One Recursion.

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 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.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies

Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.