Sr. Data Platform Engineer Computer System Validator

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

Recursion is a leading clinical-stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Central to its mission is the Recursion Operating System (OS) a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the worlds largest proprietary biological chemical and patient-centric 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 scaleup to millions of wet lab experiments weeklyand massive computational scaleowning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the worldRecursion is uniting technology biology chemistry and patient-centric data to advance the future of medicine.

In this role you will:

• Build scale and operate in a validated data platform. You will be a member of the platform team responsible for building operating and tuning a data platform with petabyte scale data and maintaining a GxP-compliant data platform for clinical data. These platforms allow our users to discover and query across the breadth of our data at Recursion which includes a chemistry library of billions of compounds cellular microscopy images taken in millions of different experimental contexts and millions of assay results all supporting Recursions drug discovery.
• Engineer Data Integrity and Traceability: You will ensure data flows with integrity in the validated environment by building the automated audit trails and lineage required by 21 CFR Part 11 making our datasets in the clinical datalake queryable and relatable for regulatory questions. Additionally youll work with biologists chemists and data scientists to build relatability and query-ability into these datasets so they can be used in the future to answer the sorts of questions we havent even thought of asking yet.
• Act as a mentor coach and sponsor. You will share your technical knowledge and experiences delivering impact learning and growth across teams at Recursion.

The Team Youll Join

• You will join the Data Lake team that built and maintains our Data Lake/house. The team is responsible for relational and object storage and has the motto: all data flows to the Data Lake. The team solves the problem of making our diverse data discoverable queryable and relatable across datasets while we continue to add new data modalities as we grow. This will require collaboration with many different groups including teams building out reports dashboards and applications teams finding and generating the required data for machine learning problems and teams building and iterating on new data processing pipelines.

Nice to Haves: Experience in a regulated environment (Fintech Medicine Nuclear Industry etc.) Experience with Search (Elasticsearch) Vector/Graph databases or deep experience scaling within the GCP ecosystem is a significant plus.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based hybrid role in our London office. 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 75900 - 101900. 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.