Senior Data Scientist, Bioinformatics

Recursion
London
3 weeks ago
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London, England · Salt Lake City, Utah · Toronto, Ontario

A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll MakeWith treatments for hundreds of diseases in our sights, we’ve built a data science team with domain expertise in computer science, bioinformatics, physics, biology, mathematics, applied statistics, and more. We work side-by-side with biologists, automation scientists, chemists, software engineers, and many others; together, we develop the tools and methods to turn our experimental data into treatments for pathologies that affect the lives of countless individuals. As a data scientist supporting the development of our scaled transcriptomics capabilities, you’ll be designing, building, testing and deploying both development and production NGS analysis workflows.In this role, you will leverage this data as you:Develop

methods, metrics, benchmarks, models and workflows to help drive drug discovery in a standardized wayBuild

scalable production bioinformatics workflows to support our NGS assaysCreate and analyze

enormous sets of connected data for a variety of programs to learn how best to advance drug discovery in an industrialized wayCollaborate

with engineering teams to mature your models and analyses and put them into productionized flowsDeliver

quickly and iteratively, both supporting in-flight programs and building improvements for the long-termLearn

to leverage new code packages and data science techniques as neededLocation:This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, or at one of our offices in Toronto or London.The Team You’ll JoinYou will be joining a platform development and workflows team that specializes in development of scaled transcriptomics at Recursion as part of our Operating Systems Hub. This data science team is part of a larger cross-functional team that includes biologists, automation engineers, and software engineers collaborating to industrialize our largest transcriptomics platform at Recursion. We are an application-oriented group whose goal is to discover drugs at scale, using the toolkit of computational science in collaboration with our counterparts in other engineering (software and data engineering, laboratory automation), scientific (biology, chemistry, clinical science), and operational (laboratory operations, regulatory affairs) disciplines. We are value-driving - data science at Recursion is not just an accelerating function; it is a core part of our value proposition. As data scientists, we are responsible for showing up as leaders and visionaries, helping to shape how Recursion delivers on our mission. We work on what matters and deliver in timescales of weeks not quarters. We focus on the impact that we are trying to make and the “why” of what we are trying to deliver and are resilient if the “how” of what we are doing needs to change.The Experience You’ll Need3+ years of experience building bioinformatics workflows for next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis, preferably in an industry setting.Experience analyzing NGS data to develop, optimize, or support an NGS assayExperience building and maintaining scaled production analysis workflows, bioinformatics workflows a plusExperience with professional software development using best practices including version control (e.g. git) and code reviewHigh fluency in Python and data science librariesExperience creating effective visualizations in PythonHow You’ll be SupportedOnboarding support from a teammate acting as your “trail guide” for the first several weeks to aid in getting up to speed with Recursion systems and infrastructureReceive real-time cross-functional feedback from your team including code review, weekly manager 1:1s, and cross-functional team meetingsOpportunity to attend annual conferences aligned with existing expertise and career development goalsThe 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 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 atwww.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.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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