Senior Scientist, In Vivo Pharmacology

Please Note: Our offices will be closed for our annual Winter Break from Monday, December 23, 2024, through Thursday, January 2, 2025. Our response to your application will be delayed.

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery from hit identification through clinical development. We are looking for a Senior Scientist to impact how we plan, execute, and understand pharmacology studies in preclinical species. With a rapidly growing portfolio of high quality drug discovery projects, this critical role will build industrial, broadly applicable solutions to inform likely clinical success in close partnership with project teams and in-house builder teams. You will impact all phases of drug discovery and early development. The Senior Scientist will leverage Recursion’s unique technologies to broadly impact our entire portfolio.

In this role, you will:

• Accelerate team success with expert translational guidance on model selection and execution, and deeply engage with project teams to drive experiments that answer critical questions
• Direct studies for internal and partnered programs and mentor other staff at the Recursion Vivarium
• Collaborate with a team of high delivery in vivo pharmacologists that serve as key translational partners for our drug discovery teams
• Partner with diverse functions from discovery, clinical, engineering, and more to influence the future state of Recursion and the TechBio industry
• Leverage Recursion’s technologies to reimagine how we plan, execute, and evaluate in vivo studies in support of evolving drug discovery
• Impact the future of TechBio by manifesting Recursion’s vision of industrialization in in vivo pharmacology

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to the Director of In Vivo Technologies, you will join Recursion’s Preclinical Sciences team which participates in Drug Discovery and the Translation Platform. The team is dedicated to leveraging translational planning in the earliest phases of discovery, enabling acceleration of programs from hit identification to candidate selection. The Preclinical Sciences team encompasses in vivo pharmacology, vivarium operations, DMPK/BA, discovery formulations, and analytical chemistry. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree (e.g., Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or related field) with 10 years of experience, Master’s degree in a scientific discipline with 8 years of experience, or PhD in a relevant scientific field with 4+ years of experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry
• Experience with design, execution and analysis of in vivo studies to assess the therapeutic potential of new chemical entities
• Familiarity with current animal models used in one or more of the following therapeutic areas: oncology, fibrosis, neurodegeneration, inflammation
• High-level understanding of small molecule drug discovery and pharmacology
• Ability to prioritize among multiple projects and working to advance projects to proof of concept
• Experience managing external resources (CROs)

Working Location:

This position is full time and onsite based at our office located in Milpitas, CA. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend at least 50% of their time per week in office.

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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:

• Developing: $131,000
• Skilled: $144,000
• Expert: $159,000 

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:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

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 in Salt 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.