Senior AI & Automation Engineer (6 Month Contract)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact Youll Make

At Recursion we combine experimental biology chemistry automation and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for diseases. We generate a wide variety of data across different biological and chemical domains and build models off of that data. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior AI & Automation Engineer to join the IT Engineering team. This role is focused on applying a software engineering mindset and skillset to design build and deploy custom AI agents and automation platforms that reduce toil and accelerate our work. You will be responsible for creating the systems that empower our teams to work faster and smarter ensuring our technology stack can effectively support our growth in the TechBio space.

Please Note: This is a 6-month contract position.

In this role you will:

• Engineer develop and deploy sophisticated AI agents using Python to automate complex business and scientific workflows reduce operational toil and accelerate key processes.
• Engineer scalable robust platforms that serve as the foundation for AI agent development enabling other teams to build and deploy their own automations.
• Engineer and automate critical operational tasks like configuration management user lifecycle management health monitoring and reporting using scripting and modern automation tools.
• Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues within our AI and automation systems engineering permanent solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with stakeholders across departments (Finance HR R&D etc.) to understand their needs identify automation opportunities and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert for our AI and automation platforms mentor junior team members and contribute to the enterprise application roadmap.

The Experience Youll Need

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a software engineering role with a heavy emphasis on building automation systems.
• Expert proficiency in Python is required.
• Experience with Large Language Model (LLM) APIs and prompt engineering.
• Proven success in designing building and deploying AI agents automation platforms or complex workflow orchestration systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building platforms and tools for others to use.
• Deep understanding of application integration APIs and middleware tools to enable seamless data flow for AI agents.
• An engineering mindset with excellent troubleshooting problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams.

Extra Points:

• Experience with agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain LlamaIndex AutoGen).
• Experience with OpenAI AgentKit or Agent Development Kit (ADK).
• Experience with vector databases for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Experience with cloud AI platforms (e.g. Vertex AI).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform Pulumi) to manage cloud resources.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda Google Cloud Functions).

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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 isnt about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability we enable trust and autonomyleaders 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 worlds 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 or connect onX (formerly Twitter)andLinkedIn.

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 Recursions 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.