Senior Data Engineer (Data Management)

Company: Scorpion Therapeutics
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Job Description:

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

  • Build and maintain core data management infrastructure. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team of data managers, software engineers, and scientists, who are responsible for building and maintaining critical data infrastructure and data pipelines which underpin all discovery efforts at Recursion. You will be a key advocate for FAIR principles ensuring high quality data and its reusability.
  • Turn automated drug discovery into a reality. You will work closely with colleagues from across the company pushing the boundaries of what is possible to work towards an automated DMTL process. You will build and maintain automations, including agentic systems, to significantly reduce the day‑to‑day manual effort required from the data management team.

In this role, you will:

  • Contribute to the development of essential SAR and chemical registration systems
  • Collaborate closely with: engineers, data managers, and scientists to understand their requirements and help build solutions to their day-to-day data management needs

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining the UK DMTL engineering team which includes the Recursion data management team. The team is responsible for building and operating our global SAR and chemical registration systems that form our Centaur Register product. The team is also responsible for building the user facing component of our small molecule design product – Centaur Chemist. This team is also building a unique control system for our DMTL labs located in Milton Park which is driving our efforts to automate the DMTL loop.

The Experience You’ll Need

  • Experience building systems to process SAR and/or chemical structures from either public or private datasets (professional experience and/or PhD level experience will be considered)
  • Degree in Biology / Chemistry or related field (i.e Biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.)
  • Experience of a commonly used programming language (i.e. Python, Java, C#, etc.)
  • Proficient in using SQL for common data management applications

Nice to Have Experience

  • Experience using agentic coding tools in a production setting
  • Experience using common Cheminformatics toolkits (RDKit, OpenEye, etc.)

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our office in Oxford, England. 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 £75,900 to £101,900. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

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Posted: April 12th, 2026