Senior Data Engineer; Data Management

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  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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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 y are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage Tech Bio 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…