What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director of Engineering position at Recursion?
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
As the manager of multiple engineering teams, you will play a critical role in navigating Recursion’s strategic landscape. These teams bring an engineering skillset to bear across domains and functions. They don’t have a curated backlog of problems to solve- they are partners in understanding the strategic landscape and identifying the problems themselves. Managers in this space must be able to partner across functions, navigate ambiguity, and lead teams through change.
The value of your work will hinge not on what your team builds but in the scientific outcomes they drive. You and your team will need to understand how drug discovery at Recursion works to be successful. You will need to work through ambiguity and an evolving strategic landscape to identify the right problems to solve. Your team might create and optimize pipelines that analyze biological data, curate data products, automate manual processes, rearchitect existing systems to align with current technical strategy, or build dashboards that power scientific decision making.
In this role, you will :
- Lead high-performing teams of software engineers that consistently move the needle on Recursion’s goals.
- Align your teams’ roadmap and goals to broader technical and business strategy. AI-enabled drug discovery is a complex landscape. Our teams need leaders who understand and advocate for engineering best practices and technical strategy in pursuit of business strategy. Every leader brings their functional expertise to bear in identifying the problems we need to solve and leading the teams that solve those problems.
- Drive delivery of scientific outcomes. Our mission isn’t to build software–we are discovering drugs through the application of technology. Software engineering is a critical skillset for our teams facilitating our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.
- Foster the professional development of your team members by setting clear expectations, providing coaching, and holding them accountable. We build and run teams of highly motivated and talented engineers, setting them up for growth and impact is critical.
- Empower your teams to deeply own their business domain, collaborate across teams and functions, and drive towards scientific outcomes. Our engineering teams don’t have tasks handed to them, they must be able to navigate cross-functional domains to identify and solve complex problems.
The Teams You’ll Join
The Experience You’ll Need
Excitement to learn parts of our tech stack that you might not already know. Our current tech stack primarily consists of Python, JavaScript (React), PostgreSQL, deployed to Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
Working Location :
This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City . Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in office.
LI-CP1
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 :
To learn more about our level within levels, click here .
You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.
During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education / training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.
The Values That We Hope You Share :
Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here .
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands 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 inSalt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive , the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal 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 that values diversity and inclusion. 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.Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. 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.
Salary : $217,000
