Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, diverse and high-dimensional data sets, and advanced deep learning algorithms. We are seeking a talented and passionate Process Analytics Scientist to join the High Throughput Screening platform team and accelerate Recursion’s mission to build diverse, connected, and high quality maps of biology. As a Process Analytics Scientist, your primary responsibility is to ensure that all data generated from the high throughput multi-omics platform is of the highest quality required to power the Recursion OS. In addition, you’ll build the systems and tools to ensure this process is as industrialized as possible, while flexible to innovation. To accomplish this mission, you’ll need to forge strong partnerships with our data scientists, software engineers, and biologists to deeply understand the Recursion OS and develop lasting and scalable solutions.
You are an independent thinker, analytical, and results-driven, with a proven track record of tackling projects with technical complexity and some ambiguity. In addition, you will be a strong leader, self-motivated, and someone able to forge lasting relationships with our collaborating teams. We are not the standard automation laboratory, and to succeed here we value creative problem solving to enable our mission, rather than simply apply industry standards to our processes.
In this role, you will:
Build a multi-omics analytics product with support from our Data Science, Biology, and Software Engineering teams
- Collaborate with our Biology, Data Science, and Innovation & Scale-up teams to onboard new phenomics assays, new platform technologies, and new -omics modalities
- Track and analyze metrics from experiments run on our HTS platform
- Innovate and code new analytical tools, discrete simulations, and software applications to accelerate the quality and efficiency of our high throughput screening (HTS) platform
- Generate new insights between our vast quantities of biological data and our high throughput automation platform
Location:
This hybrid position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT. We offer a flexible hybrid model between working remote and on-site work.
The Team You’ll Join
Reporting to the Associate Director of Analytics & Controls, you’ll be an integral member of the Biology Platforms Team. This team operates in a fast-paced research operations environment that strives to leverage statistical principles, data visualizations, and biological principles to build high quality maps that further our mission to decode biology.
This is the team that generates much of the 20+ petabytes of high quality, diverse, and foundational datasets that power the Recursion OS. In addition, this team partners closely with our Platform Development, , Data Science, and Biology teams to drive foundational advancements to our scientific technology stack. We are always looking for ways to innovate, and you’ll be a critical component of this mission.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering discipline with 5+ years experience OR master’s degree with 3+ years experience OR PhD with 1+ year experience in an analytics intensive role
- Proficiency with programming tools: Python, R, SQL, Splunk and some experience with shared codebases, eg Git
- Attention to detail and willingness to track down and troubleshoot complex problems
- Strong quantitative skills with understanding of statistical principles, linear algebra, and experience with high-dimensional data is a plus
- Understanding of laboratory automation, genetics, and primary human cell based assays is a plus
- Clear understanding of experiment design and the scientific method
- Strong data visualization skills through creation of plots, documentation and presentations
- Curiosity and the professional skill-set to excel in an open and highly collaborative environment
How You’ll be Supported
- Weekly 1:1s with your manager who provides regular opportunities for growth, visibility, and feedback
- Regular skip level 1:1s with department leads to drive multi-level collaboration
- World class biologists, chemists, data scientists, machine learning scientists to partner and collaborate in this new frontier of drug discovery
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:
- Developing: $108,000
- Skilled: $120,000
- Expert: $ 132,000
To learn more about our level within levels, click here.
You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.
During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.
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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
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands 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 London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
