Staff Scientist - Causal Inference

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Within Recursion, the clinical development technology (“ClinTech”) team is at the forefront of applying technology to increase efficiency in our clinical programs. The ClinTech team supports study planning, execution, and contextualization of trial results. The mission is to dramatically increase the probability of success of our clinical programs. 

In this role, you will:

• Apply statistical programming skills to large databases, including health insurance claims, electronic health records, and real-world human genomics data
• Apply causal inference skills to infer relationships between clinical, genomics, and outcomes. 
• Build relationships with clinical development, clinical operations, biometrics and computational biology teams. 
• Produce scientifically rigorous evidence that will facilitate decision-making in clinical (and sometimes pre-clinical) programs.

The Team You’ll Join 

We are a small, yet highly visible team within Recursion focused on the frontiers of clinical development and also dabble with pre-clinical phases. We carry ourselves with humility, work with speed and curiosity,  and hold ourselves to the highest standards of scientific rigor. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline. Alternative disciplines will be considered, provided there is work experience in quantitative roles. 
• At least 6 years of experience in the application of the skills highlighted below will be required. 
• Expertise with at least one statistical programming language such as Python or R
• Strong background in applied statistics, including model fitting and inference from observational data. Hands-on experience developing and validating machine-learning predictive models.
• Experience in biotech research and development is required. 

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based role in either Salt Lake City or New York City. 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 $200,600 to $238,400.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 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.

More About Recursion

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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 Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, 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.  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 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.