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Senior Computational Biologist - Early Discovery Oncology

Recursion· Data Science
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Hybrid (Salt Lake City, UT / New York, NY)$167k - $220.7k + bonusfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Computational Biologist focused on target discovery in precision oncology within Recursion’s early discovery team, integrating multimodal datasets to nominate novel targets, validate disease biology, and inform precision oncology strategies to advance therapeutic targets.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Target Discovery: Evaluate the molecular evidence for target nomination and validation, leveraging Recursion’s platform to identify novel vulnerabilities in precision oncology disease biology
  • Pilot novel methods for target discovery, validation, and early patient population hypotheses to send programs into nomination cascades
  • Define internal criteria for target data packages and early patient population strategy
  • Connect your innovative analysis methods to platform and engineering teams so that we solve the current project and accelerate future ones
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with biologists, medicinal chemists, translational, and portfolio leads to build compelling data packages that drive program milestones and internal investment decisions
  • Present data analysis to decision makers and stakeholders in a clear and compelling way that drives toward getting medicines to patients.

Qualifications

  • - PhD in a relevant field (computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, cancer biology, etc.) with a very strong computational focus and 3+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry OR MS in a relevant field and 5+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry solving fundamental problems in early drug discovery
  • - Domain expertise in precision oncology and target id
  • - Strong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease relevant pathways
  • - Experience applying computational methods (including probabilistic, statistical, and/or machine learning techniques) to analyze and integrate complex biological and/or human clinical data in a high level programming language such as Python or R
  • - Exceptional data visualization skills
  • - Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including an ability to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences using a combination of plots, documents, and presentations

Skills

Required:Target discoveryData integrationComputational biologyPython or RData visualizationCross-functional communication

Benefits

  • - Base salary with annual bonus
  • - Equity compensation
  • - Comprehensive benefits package
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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