Data Science Returnship

Your work will change lives. Including your own. We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build a next-generation biopharmaceutical company. Its complex biology, decoded. Recursion is a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery. We are working to solve some of the hardest, most meaningful problems facing human health today. Come join us in our mission to decode biology to radically improve lives, while doing the most impactful work of your life. Recursions Returnship Program Our Returnship program is sponsored by the Women at Recursion Employee Resource Group. The program is aimed at helping those who have taken a hiatus (2+ years) from the STEM industry have the opportunity to return to the workforce in a learning environment with support from teams and mentors. This allows our company to tap into an underutilized pool of talent in Utah, and leverage the experience and skills of previous work and life experiences, while also providing opportunity to learn and develop experience in new cutting-edge tools and technology. This sixteen-week program will enable you to have ownership of projects that can deeply impact the companys mission to radically decode biology and serve patients, while having the guidance, support and mentorship has you re-enter the workforce. Each Returner will be assigned a mentor who will meet with them weekly, as well as weekly seminars on workplace culture, communication and technology. Our returner program lasts 4 months, running from February 2026 through the end of May 2026, with potential for transition into full-time employment depending on performance and availability. This position is mainly based in our Salt Lake City, UT headquarters, with some hybrid working flexibility available. Data Science & Applied Machine Learning Returnship Working alongside Recursions Nomination Workflows team, you will engage with a cross-functional group having expertise in biology, chemistry, data science, and engineering. This team is responsible for the first two stages of Recursion's drug discovery pipeline, where we generate novel hypotheses and identify promising chemical matter. We accomplish this by building and operating a scalable, semi-automated computational system that mines our data for new & interesting starting points for our discovery portfolio. All work in this team directly contributes to improving the quantity, reliability, quality, and confidence of our early-stage program starting points. Projects on this team include: Program Advancement: Partner closely with biologists and chemists to advance specific early-stage programs through exploratory data analysis and experiment evaluation. Method Development: Analyze and improve our semi-automated evaluation systems through exploratory data analysis, method development, and deployment of new data analysis methods or metrics. Platform Improvements: Maintain, update, and improve our scientific code-bases to harden our systems, improve observability, accelerate development, and enable new capabilities and automations. The Experience Youll Need This role is for individuals who have been on a career hiatus of 2+ years from the STEM industry. We are seeking candidates with a strong foundational background and a passion for learning. applying probability, statistics, and machine learning to real-world datasets developing scientific software, workflow orchestration, or data-engineering Familiarity with the Python data stack (e.g., numpy, pandas, scikit-learn). Prior experience in collaborative software development, including version control tools like git. The ability to critically review python code, whether authored by peers or LLM coding agents. An aptitude for breaking down complex problems into manageable parts and clearly communicating project objectives & progress to a diverse team. Nice to have: Experience analyzing biological or high-dimensional datasets. Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Prefect). Experience accelerating & improving code development with coding agents The Recursion Community While we offer cutting-edge tools, the secret sauce is our people. Our organization structure and culture isnt driven by politics or ego, it is designed first and foremost to help you do your best work. We live and work by values that we see as the strategic differentiators that give us a competitive advantage, allowing for better and faster work that isnt predicated on burnout and encourages us to make leaps where others take steps. This is a place where people in every role and every level make the bold bets that create large leaps forward on a regular basis The Perks Youll Enjoy as a Returner Recursionaut Paid sick pay and additional flexibility as needed. Complimentary chef-prepared lunches and well-stocked snack bars (Salt Lake City). One-of-a-kind 100,000 square foot headquarters complete with a 70-foot climbing wall, showers, lockers and bike parking (Salt Lake City). Weekly Returners Skill Development Classes. 1:1 Weekly Mentorship with a member of your team and a member of the Returnship ERG. 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. 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