Associate Software Engineer

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

Recursion is a publicly traded digital biology company industrializing drug discovery. Our team works on some of the hardest, most meaningful problems facing human health today. At Recursion, you will do some of the most impactful work of your life. Come join us in our mission to decode biology to radically improve lives.

WHAT WE DO

At Recursion we combine experimental biology, automation, and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for human diseases. Today we have four drugs in the clinic, and in the next 10 years we hope to discover 100 more. We are transforming drug discovery into a data science problem, and to do that we are building a platform for rapid biological experimentation, data generation, automated analysis, model training, and prediction.

THE IMPACT YOU’LL MAKE

• Create a world-class research platform. You'll work with lab technicians, data scientists, biologists, and medicinal chemists to quickly derive insights from a large volume of raw machine-generated data.
• Build relatability into a heterogeneous dataset. At Recursion, we generate datasets based on a wide swath of diverse biological models and treatment approaches. You'll work with Data Scientists to build relatability and queryability into these datasets so they can be used in five years to answer the sorts of questions we haven't even thought of asking yet.
• Provide visibility into operations. You'll create tools, dashboards, and metrics to help lab operations design and execute experiments, move and archive large quantities of biologically relevant data, grant early insight into the quality of proposed experiments, and track the provenance of key drug development decisions.

THE TEAM YOU'LL JOIN

The Automation & Information Management team develops tools and dashboards for exploration of laboratory instrumented biological data. This includes tracking and executing experiments, transmitting and archiving the resulting data, and running data analytics against all that we have discovered. This broad ownership makes this an ideal team for an analytics engineer who wants to create user-friendly processes spanning our laboratory and information systems. You will love this role if you have a background in biology with lab experience, such as bench work, automation engineering, or data collection and curation; or a background in software engineering with experience working with scientific professionals in a research setting.  

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Knowledge of at least one scripting language, such as Python
• Experience writing queries and working with databases
• Experience with data analysis software such as Splunk, Spotfire, Dotmatics, Matlab, or Jupyter notebooks
• Experience being resourceful and collaborative in order to complete small projects
• A people-first mindset. We work closely with people from a wide variety of professional and academic disciplines. Despite the deadlines, we always prioritize supporting our coworkers in their growth and experience.

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The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Central to our mission is the Recursion Operating System, or Recursion OS, that combines an advanced infrastructure layer to generate what we believe is one of the world’s l