Senior AI & Automation Engineer (6 Month Contract)

Senior AI & Automation Engineer (6 Month Contract)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You'll Make

At Recursion, we combine experimental biology, chemistry, automation and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for diseases. We generate a wide variety of data across different biological and chemical domains, and build models off of that data. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior AI & Automation Engineer to join the IT Engineering team. This role is focused on applying a software engineering mindset and skillset to design, build, and deploy custom AI agents and automation platforms that reduce toil and accelerate our work. You will be responsible for creating the systems that empower our teams to work faster and smarter, ensuring our technology stack can effectively support our growth in the TechBio space.

Please Note : This is a 6-month contract position.

In This Role You Will :

• Engineer, develop, and deploy sophisticated AI agents using Python to automate complex business and scientific workflows, reduce operational toil, and accelerate key processes.
• Engineer scalable, robust platforms that serve as the foundation for AI agent development, enabling other teams to build and deploy their own automations.
• Engineer and automate critical operational tasks like configuration management, user lifecycle management, health monitoring, and reporting using scripting and modern automation tools.
• Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues within our AI and automation systems, engineering permanent solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with stakeholders across departments (Finance, HR, R&D, etc.) to understand their needs, identify automation opportunities, and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert for our AI and automation platforms, mentor junior team members, and contribute to the enterprise application roadmap.

The Experience You'll Need

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The Values We Hope You Share :

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, Montral, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area.

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.