Compound Management Scientist

Recursion; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering biopharmaceutical company in the United Kingdom seeks a Compound Management Scientist to ensure efficient compound flow through highly automated systems. Responsibilities include operating automated platforms and managing inventories while collaborating with cross-functional teams. A Bachelor's degree in related fields and proven experience in sample management are essential. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £52,000 to £57,800, with additional bonuses and benefits.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a compound management role within a pharmaceutical or biotech environment.
• Hands-on experience with automated liquid handlers.
• Experience with automated platforms is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate automated platforms and maintain automated workcells.
• Perform essential workflows like receipt, weighing, and solubilisation of compounds.
• Manage onsite automated compound storage.

Skills

Automated liquid handlers

Organizational skills

Ability to manage multiple requests

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences or related field

Tools

Laboratory automation

Job description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Compound Management Scientist at Recursion, you will be a key contributor to our mission to accelerate drug discovery. By ensuring that compounds flow seamlessly through our highly automated ecosystem, your work will directly bridge the gap between compound logistics and our advanced automation cells. By ensuring high-quality, assay-ready reagents are delivered rapidly to our screening scientists, you will help us move toward a future of 24/7, unattended, autonomous discovery.

In this role, you will:

• Operate Automated Platforms: Run and maintain state-of-the-art automated workcells and liquid handling platforms.
• Execute Core Logistics: Perform essential compound management workflows, including the receipt, weighing, solubilisation, and formatting of solid and liquid compound stocks
• Manage Inventory: Oversee onsite automated compound storage and ensure robust sample tracking and data integrity
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with biologists, data scientists, and engineers to troubleshoot equipment, optimize workflows, and ensure the timely delivery of compounds
• Drive Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of our sample management processes.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining the Compound Management team, a collaborative group at the heart of our discovery engine. This team is responsible for the critical task of provisioning drug candidates and reagents for our R&D laboratories, working daily with state-of-the-art robotic platforms and laboratory automation.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field
• Proven experience in a compound management or sample management role within a pharmaceutical or biotech environment
• Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with automated liquid handlers
• Experience with automated platforms is highly is a strong plus
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple requests and timelines while maintaining high data quality standards.
• A passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and the ability to adapt to changing priorities

Working Location & Compensation:

This is a full-time lab-based position at our office located in Milton Park, Abingdon, UK.

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 £52,000 to £57,800 (GBP). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

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, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on LinkedIn.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Recursion)

We are committed to a high-performing workplace where everyone feels like they belong and can do the best work of their careers. We reward merit and contribution as we strive for a workplace that reflects the communities in which we operate and the patients we intend to serve. To this end, we invite you to self-identify your race/ethnicity and gender. This information will be kept confidential and will not be used to favor or discriminate against any candidate. It will not be shared with the hiring managers or otherwise considered as part of your application. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide any or all of the information requested will not subject you to any adverse treatment.