Senior Analytics Engineer at Recursion building data infrastructure and dashboards for drug discovery. Focus on Spotfire automation, BigQuery pipelines, and analytics tools supporting the Design-Make-Test-Learn cycle.
The Impact You’ll Make
At Recursion, we are reimagining drug discovery through a powerful synthesis of AI, automation, and deep scientific expertise. In this role, you will be the bridge between complex chemical data and the strategic systems that power our discovery programs. Your primary focus will be building the tools and infrastructure that support our computational designers and medicinal chemists in making data-driven decisions for the next steps in discovery programs. You will expose analytics that help us further automate the platform by closing the Design-Make-Test-Learn (DMTL) loop to accelerate the design process.
You will have high-level ownership of our analytical ecosystem—including the Spotfire library, data schemas, and automation services—transforming complex datasets into directed platform improvements. You will be at the center of our DMTL loop, creating the tools that empower our scientists to design novel, high-quality drug candidates with unparalleled speed and precision. Your work will directly accelerate our portfolio, drive our partnerships, and contribute to our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.
In this role, you will:
The Team You’ll Join
You will be a core member of the Design Workflow team, an interdisciplinary group responsible for the end-to-end development and operation of our molecular design platform. We are the orchestration engine for the Hit-to-Lead (H2L) and Lead Optimization (LO) phases of drug discovery. Our team embodies a “Build & Operate” philosophy, intentionally integrating the development of the Recursion OS with its direct application in advancing our portfolio.
The Experience You’ll Need
Working Location & Compensation:
This is an office-based, hybrid role in our London office. 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 - £101,900. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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The Values We Hope You Share:
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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on X 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.