Chemistry Application Specialist

Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

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.-- The Impact You'll Make

• Integrate multiple application systems to create a smooth working environment to further our medicinal chemistry team. You'll guide the adoption and development of data warehousing and analysis tools to help the team to grow our new chemical entity (NCE) programs to get new treatments to patients.
• Assist, support, and train scientists. You'll become an expert in chemical informatics systems and a go-to person for researchers on teams throughout Recursion.
• Be a data steward. You'll ensure we use formats and definitions so that data from multiple sources and research programs is relatable and well understood The Team You'll Join-- You'll join the data stewardship and integrations team at Recursion, which is a team combining experience in software development, chemical informatics, and biology to ensure our data is accessible and relatable across different disease programs, experimental platforms, and phases of drug development. On this team, you'll have opportunities to work with biologists, chemists, software engineers, members of our commercialization team, and third-party system vendors to support our research efforts to bring new treatments to patients. You will report to the Vice President of Chemistry. The Experience You'll Need
  • BS or higher with a major in Chemistry or a relevant IT field (e.g. Computer Science) and experience with chemical and biological data
  • Experience with some cheminformatics and warehousing systems (e.g. Benchling, Dotmatics, ChemAxon, Optibrium, OpenEye)
  • Experience writing SQL queries and working with relational databases
  • Experience working with scientists and understanding complex scientific needs of within a pharmaceutical setting
  • Appreciation of the different data types and requirements of chemistry and biology in drug discovery
  • Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and tuning operational systems
  • Experience implementing data management best practices (e.g. FAIR) or subject matter-specific principles or ontologies (e.g. BAO) The Benefits/Perks You'll Enjoy
    • 100% Coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums--
    • 401(k) with generous matching (immediate vesting)
    • Two one-week paid company closures (summer and winter)--
    • Flexible vacation/sick leave
    • Generous paid parental leave (including adoptive)
    • Commuter benefit and vehicle parking to ease your commute*--
    • Fully-paid gym membership to Metro Fitness , located just feet away from our headquarters*-- *Subject to change for remote-based employees during the COVID-19 pandemic More About Us-- Recursion is a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery. Recursion does this by combining automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, in vivo validation capabilities and a highly cross-functional team to discover novel medicines that expand our collective understanding of biology. Recursion's rich, relatable database of over 4 petabytes of biological images generated in-house on the company's robotics platform enables advanced machine learning approaches to reveal drug candidates, mechanisms of action, novel chemistry, and potential toxicity, with the eventual goal of decoding biology and advancing new therapeutics that radically improve people's lives. Recursion is proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City. 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