Senior Data Engineer (Data Management)

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Recursion is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (Data Management) to join UK DMTL team at Milton Park, building and maintaining data infrastructure and SAR systems powering Centaur Register and Centaur Chemist. You will champion FAIR data, collaborate with engineers and data managers, and help automate the DMTL loop with agentic systems to reduce manual work. Requirements include experience processing SAR or chemical structures from public or private datasets, a biology or chemistry degree, and Python or Java plus SQL; desirable RDKit and agentic tools. Salary ranges £75,900 to £101,900 plus bonus, equity, benefits; 50% in-office. To apply, tailor your CV to end-to-end data pipelines, show measurable impact on data quality and automation, highlight cross-functional collaboration, and reflect Recursion values in your cover letter.

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

• Build and maintain core data management infrastructure.  You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team of data managers, software engineers, and scientists, who are responsible for building and maintaining critical data infrastructure and data pipelines which underpin all discovery efforts at Recursion.  You will be a key advocate for FAIR principles ensuring high quality data and its reusability.
• Turn automated drug discovery into a reality.  You will work closely with colleagues from across the company pushing the boundaries of what is possible to work towards an automated DMTL process.  You will build and maintain automations, including agentic systems, to significantly reduce the day‑to‑day manual effort required from the data management team.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the development of essential SAR and chemical registration systems
• Collaborate closely with: engineers, data managers, and scientists to understand their requirements and help build solutions to their day-to-day data management needs

The Team You’ll Join 

You will be joining the UK DMTL engineering team which includes the Recursion data management team.  The team is responsible for building and operating our global SAR and chemical registration systems that form our Centaur Register product.  The team is also responsible for building the user facing component of our  small molecule design product - Centaur Chemist.  This team is also building a unique control system for our DMTL labs located in  Milton Park which is driving our efforts to automate the DMTL loop.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Experience building systems to process SAR and/or chemical structures from either public or private datasets (professional experience and/or PhD level experience will be considered)
• Degree in Biology / Chemistry or related field (i.e Biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.)
• Experience of a commonly used programming language (i.e. Python, Java, C#, etc.)
• Proficient in using SQL for common data management applications

Nice to Have Experience

• Experience using agentic coding tools in a production setting
• Experience using common Cheminformatics toolkits (RDKit, OpenEye, etc.)

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our office in Oxford, England. 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 to £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:

• 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.

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 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 www.Recursion.com, 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.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.