Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make:

Human biology stems from four billion years of evolution, which creates a proliferation of complexity and heterogeneity. The combinatorial explosion of biological hypotheses easily surpasses the number of atoms in the universe. Meanwhile, medical discovery advances at the snail pace of clinical trials, each taking years and costing over $100 million. As we enter the era of precision health and try to tailor treatments for each individual, continuing on today’s discovery processes is clearly unsustainable.

With the confluence of digital transformation and intelligence revolution, we have an unprecedented opportunity to develop a unifying biomedical world model by bridging virtual patient and virtual cell, and turning real-world data into a discovery engine to close the loop of clinical care and drug discovery. As a Staff AI Researcher, you will join our cross-functional team of top-notch scientists, engineers, and drug hunters in the quest of scalable biomedical discovery. You will work at the forefront of AI-powered drug discovery, advancing frontier research and end-to-end applications across discovery, design, and translation.

The Team You’ll Join:

Recursion is a pioneer in AI-native drug discovery. In the past decade, we have built an unparalleled array of infrastructures across drug discovery and clinical development, operating one of the largest AI compute clusters in biopharma, and spearheading industrial-scale phenomics for perturbation data generation at cellular resolution, long before “virtual cell” entered the mainstream. United under the mission of “decoding biology to radically improve lives”, we offer a unique vibrant environment that features frontier research, industrialized wet and dry labs, and real-world delivery, with close feedback loops and rapid iterations, much like a lean startup. You will join fellow experts across research and engineering, biology and medicine, business and operation, who are similarly committed to accelerating biomedical discovery and democratizing precision health for everyone in the globe.

The Experience You Will Need:

• PhD in ML, NLP, computer vision, or the equivalent practical experience
• Passionate about real-world applications and impact
• Strong verbal and writing communication skills
• 7+ years of frontier AI research experience
• Experience with large datasets and cross-functional AI projects
• Experience in biomedicine and drug discovery a plus; willingness to learn a must!

Working Location & Compensation:

This is a fully remote position and can be based anywhere across the United States.

At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for this role, the estimated annual base salary range is:

• New York City & Boston Area(s): $263,340 - $309,870
• San Francisco Bay Area(s): $274,100 - $322,500
• Salt Lake City & all other U.S. locations: $239,400 - $281,700

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and 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 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 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.

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