[Hiring] Principal AI Researcher @Recursion

Role Description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make:

• Human biology stems from four billion years of evolution, creating a proliferation of complexity and heterogeneity.
• The combinatorial explosion of biological hypotheses easily surpasses the number of atoms in the universe.
• Medical discovery advances at the snail pace of clinical trials, each taking years and costing over $100 million.
• As we enter the era of precision health, continuing on today's discovery processes is clearly unsustainable.
• We have an unprecedented opportunity to develop a unifying biomedical world model by bridging virtual patient and virtual cell.
• Turning real-world data into a discovery engine to close the loop of clinical care and drug discovery.
• As a Principal AI Researcher, you will join a cross-functional team of scientists, engineers, and drug hunters in scalable biomedical discovery.
• You will work at the forefront of AI-powered drug discovery, advancing frontier research and end-to-end applications across discovery, design, and translation.

The Team You’ll Join

• Recursion is a pioneer in AI-native drug discovery.
• We have built an unparalleled array of infrastructures across drug discovery and clinical development.
• Operating one of the largest AI compute clusters in biopharma.
• Spearheading industrial-scale phenomics for perturbation data generation at cellular resolution.
• United under the mission of “decoding biology to radically improve lives”.
• We offer a vibrant environment featuring frontier research, industrialized wet and dry labs, and real-world delivery.
• Close feedback loops and rapid iterations, much like a lean startup.
• You will join fellow experts across research and engineering, biology and medicine, business and operation.
• Committed to accelerating biomedical discovery and democratizing precision health for everyone globally.

Qualifications

• PhD in ML, NLP, computer vision, or equivalent practical experience.
• Passionate about real-world applications and impact.
• Strong verbal and writing communication skills.
• 10+ years of frontier AI research experience.
• Experience with large datasets and cross-functional AI projects.
• Experience in biomedicine and drug discovery a plus; willingness to learn a must!

The Values We Hope You Share

• 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.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting.
• We take ownership and accountability.
• We are One Recursion.

Company Description

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.

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.