Senior Data Engineer (Data Management) in Oxford

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.

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 decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting. Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation.

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.