Staff Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

In this role you will:

• Assess our current state of IAM and revamp our IAM strategy across our products platforms cloud/on-premise infrastructure and corporate applications to accelerate key business outcomes.
• Drive IAM implementation as part of our larger zero-trust security strategy
• Architect and Design cloud-based identity governance access management and cloud directory solutions
• Implement RBAC/ABAC based IAM workflows for onboarding and ongoing identity lifecycle management
• Act as a key technical and strategic advisor for cross-functional teams including IT security and development to ensure that IAM principles are integrated into broader security architecture.
• Partner with Engineering and IT teams to ensure our products and applications are developed and implemented with fine-tuned access privileges and are appropriately risk
• Establish well-defined KPIs KCIs and KRIs that provide visibility into IAM control effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
• Ensure regulatory compliance by partnering with other teams to design IAM solutions that meet standards for SOX GxP etc.

The Team Youll Join

• You will join a growing Information Security team at Recursion focused on enabling Recursion to decode biology by providing world class secure technology services that are designed and fit for purpose. Youll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to ensure that IAM systems support the organizations broader business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security.

The Experience Youll Need

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Security or a related field.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains.
• Deep understanding of security principles and proven track record of successfully leading large-scale IAM projects from strategy to execution particularly within cloud-first and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java C Python) as they relate to IAM products.
• Expert level experience in one or more of the leading Enterprise Identity Administration & Governance solutions
• Expert level Experience in Adaptive Authentication OAuth OpenID SAML etc.
• Expert level experience with the identity stack like Enterprise Active Directory as well as experience working with IAM products in the cloud like Okta AWS Azure AD Duo or equivalent
• Expert level experience with privileged access management solutions (e.g. Delinea CyberArk).
• Knowledge of operating systems (UNIX/Linux macOS Windows) and of database management systems
• Excellent communication and leadership skills capable of driving security initiatives and influencing change across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Act as a Business Systems Analyst and articulate and elicit requirements and use-cases in a manner that is technology agnostic
• A continuous improvement mindset staying up to date with the latest IAM trends and technologies to drive innovation within the organization.
• Experience with risk management ensuring that IAM solutions are aligned with organizational risk tolerance and compliance requirements.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g. CISSP OSCP GWAPT) are highly desirable.

Working Location & Compensation:

Making SLC your home base is ideal however we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.

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$180600 to $212900. 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 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 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.

Recursions 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 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.

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.