- Architect and maintain robust infrastructure to keep critical internal and external biological resources (e.g., ChEMBL, Ensembl, Reactome, proprietary assays) up-to-date and accessible to reasoning agents.
- Design sophisticated context retrieval strategies, choosing the most effective approach for each biological use case, whether working with structured, entity-focused data, unstructured RAG, or graph-based representations.
- Integrate established bioinformatics/cheminformatics libraries into a GenAI ecosystem, creating interfaces (such as via MCP) that allow agents to autonomously query and manipulate biological data.
- Pilot methods for tool use by LLMs, enabling the system to perform complex tasks like pathway analysis on the fly rather than relying solely on memorized weights.
- Develop scalable, production-grade systems that serve as the backbone for Recursion's automated scientific reasoning capabilities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Recursion's core biology, chemistry, data science and engineering teams to ensure our biological data and the reasoning engines are accurately reflecting the complexity of disease biology and drug discovery.
- Present technical trade-offs (e.g., graph vs. vector) to leadership and stakeholders in a clear, compelling way that aligns technical reality with product vision.
- PhD in a relevant field (Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Systems Biology) with 5+ years of industry experience, or MS in a relevant field with 7+ years of experience, focusing on biological data representation and retrieval.
- Proficiency in utilizing major public biological databases (NCBI, Ensembl, STRING, GO) and using standard bioinformatics/cheminformatics toolkits (e.g., RDKit, samtools, Biopython).
- Strong skills in designing and maintaining automated data pipelines that support continuous ingestion, transformation, and refresh of biological data without manual intervention.
- Ability to work with knowledge graph data models and query languages (e.g., RDF, SPARQL, OWL) and translate graph-structured data into relational or other non-graph representations, with a strong judgment in evaluating trade-offs between different approaches.
- Competence in building and operating GenAI stacks, including RAG systems, vector databases, and optimization of context windows for large-scale LLM deployments.
- Hands-on expertise with agentic AI frameworks (e.g., MCP, Google ADK, LangChain, AutoGPT) and familiarity with leading LLMs (e.g., Google Gemini/Gemma) in agentic workflows, including benchmarking and evaluating agent performance on bioinformatics/cheminformatics tasks such as structure prediction, target identification, and pathway mapping.
- Strong Python skills and adherence to software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, Git-based version control, and modular design.
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, ability to clearly explain complex architectural decisions to both scientific domain experts and technical stakeholders.
- Strong background in machine learning and deep learning, including hands-on experience with foundation models and modern neural architectures.
- Fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora for domain-specific reasoning.
- Integrating LLMs with experimental or proprietary assay data in live scientific workflows.
- Background in drug discovery and target identification.
- Meaningful contributions to open-source libraries, research codebases, or community-driven tools.
- We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
- We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
- We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
- We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn't about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
- We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy-leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
- We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.
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Staff Data Scientist - New York - RECURSION CO
Description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.The Impact You'll Make
As a member of Recursion's AI-driven drug discovery initiatives, you will be at the forefront of reimagining how biological knowledge is generated, stored, accessed, and reasoned upon by LLMs. You will play a key role in developing the biological reasoning infrastructure, connecting large-scale data and codebases with dynamic, agent-driven AI systems.You will be responsible for defining the architecture that grounds our agents in biological truth. This involves integrating biomedical resources to enable AI systems to reason effectively and selecting the most appropriate data retrieval strategies to support those insights. This is a highly collaborative role: you will partner with machine learning engineers, biologists, chemists, and platform teams to build the connective tissue that allows our AI agents to reason like a scientist. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in both core bioinformatics/cheminformatics libraries and modern GenAI frameworks (including RAG and MCP), a strong architectural vision, and the ability to translate high-potential prototypes into scalable production workflows.
In this role, you will:
You'll join a bold, agile team of scientists and engineers dedicated to building comprehensive biological maps by integrating Recursion's in-house datasets, patient data, and external knowledge layers to enable sophisticated agent-based reasoning. Within this cross-functional team, you will design and maintain the biological context and data structures that allow agents to reason accurately and efficiently. You'll collaborate closely with wet-lab biologists and core platform engineers to develop systems that are not only technically robust but also scientifically rigorous. The ideal candidate is curious about emerging AI technologies, passionate about making biological data both machine-readable and machine-understandable, and brings a strong foundation in systems biology, biomedical data analysis, and agentic AI systems.
The Experience You'll Need
This is an office-based, hybrid role in either our Salt Lake City, UT or New York City, NY offices. 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 $200,600 - $238,400. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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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 , 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.
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