Senior Data Engineer (Data Management) in Abingdon

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Build and maintain core data management infrastructure.
• Join a multi-disciplinary team of data managers, software engineers, and scientists responsible for building and maintaining critical data infrastructure and data pipelines which underpin all discovery efforts at Recursion.
• Be a key advocate for FAIR principles ensuring high quality data and its reusability.
• Turn automated drug discovery into a reality by working closely with colleagues from across the company to push the boundaries of what is possible towards an automated DMTL process.
• Build and maintain automations, including agentic systems, to significantly reduce the day-to-day manual effort required from the data management team.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the development of essential SAR and chemical registration systems.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, data managers, and scientists to understand their requirements and help build solutions to their day-to-day data management needs.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining the UK DMTL engineering team which includes the Recursion data management team. The team is responsible for building and operating our global SAR and chemical registration systems that form our Centaur Register product. The team is also responsible for building the user-facing component of our small molecule design product - Centaur Chemist. This team is also building a unique control system for our DMTL labs located in Milton Park which is driving our efforts to automate the DMTL loop.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Experience building systems to process SAR and/or chemical structures from either public or private datasets (professional experience and/or PhD level experience will be considered).
• Degree in Biology / Chemistry or related field (i.e Biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.).
• Experience of a commonly used programming language (i.e. Python, Java, C#, etc.).
• Proficient in using SQL for common data management applications.

Nice to Have Experience

• Experience using agentic coding tools in a production setting.
• Experience using common Cheminformatics toolkits (RDKit, OpenEye, etc.).

Working Location & Compensation

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our office in Oxford, England. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time. 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 £75,900 to £101,900. 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.

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.

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.