Staff Product Manager at Recursion defining agentic systems for autonomous drug discovery. Role bridges AI/ML infrastructure with wet-lab automation, focusing on agent orchestration, reasoning architectures, and closed-loop experimentation in biotech.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is leading an era of autonomous science – an adaptable system where AI agents navigate the complexity of biology and chemistry to discover medicines faster and better.
As the Staff Product Manager for Agentic Systems, you will define the technical and scientific capabilities required for our next suite of capabilities. You will sit at the intersection of our massive proprietary data generation engine and our cutting-edge AI models, building the "nervous system" that allows agents to reason, plan, and execute experiments in our automated labs.
This role is not about maintaining a static roadmap; it is about navigating the frontier of a rapidly evolving field. You will partner with engineering leadership to solve a critical challenge: How do we prioritize the next autonomous science capabilities with the most impact on our drug discovery pipeline, while the definition of "best practices" for AI agents changes monthly? You will balance the need for durable, scalable orchestration infrastructure with the critical need for cycles of experimentation, ensuring we learn fast, validate agent architectures, and avoid cementing solutions before we understand the problem space.
In this role, you will:
The Team You’ll Join
You will join a cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, and AI/ML scientists who build the technical bedrock that enables autonomous science, including agent orchestration, guardrails, and the connectivity between our digital and physical assets. You will collaborate closely with the Discovery teams (the users of these agents), the AI Research teams (who build cutting-edge models), and our automated biology and chemistry lab teams (who generate the data that feeds into the models).
The Experience You’ll Need
Working Location & Compensation:
This is an office-based, hybrid position at one of our office in London. 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 £100,800 - £118,300. 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.