Senior Computational Immunology Target Discovery (Hybrid)

Recursion; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 151,800 - 200,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Recursion is seeking a computational biologist to lead target discovery and validation within the early discovery team. You will integrate large datasets to nominate novel targets and define precision strategies for advancing therapies into drug discovery programs.

The role requires strong computational skills, domain expertise in immunology, and experience in biotech or pharma with advanced degrees. Collaboration across biology, chemistry, data science, and engineering is essential.

Qualifications

• PhD in computational biology or related field with strong computational focus and 3+ years in biotech/pharma OR MS with 5+ years in biotech/pharma solving problems in early drug discovery.
• Domain expertise in immunological diseases and target id.
• Strong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease pathways.
• Experience applying computational methods to analyze complex biological data in Python or R.
• Exceptional data visualization skills.
• Excellent cross‑functional communication, ability to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Drive Target Discovery: evaluate molecular evidence for nomination using Recursion's platform.
• Pilot novel methods for discovery and early population hypotheses.
• Define criteria for target data packages and patient population strategy.
• Collaborate with platform and engineering teams to solve projects.
• Partner with biologists, chemists, translational, and portfolio leads to build data packages.
• Present data analyses to decision makers to drive program milestones.

Skills

PhD in computational biology

3+ years biotech/pharma experience

Domain expertise immunology

Python or R

Data visualization

Cross-functional communication

Education

PhD in computational biology

MS in relevant field

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Recursion is seeking a computational biologist to lead target discovery and validation within the early discovery team. You will integrate large datasets to nominate novel targets and define precision strategies for advancing therapies into drug discovery programs.

The role requires strong computational skills, domain expertise in immunology, and experience in biotech or pharma with advanced degrees. Collaboration across biology, chemistry, data science, and engineering is essential.