Recursion

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EngineeringManager-MachineLearning

£96–127k London, United Kingdom Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Engineering Manager - Machine Learning at Recursion. Skills: Machine Learning Infrastructure, MLOps, Distributed Systems, Leadership. Lead ML infrastructure team. Build ML infrastructure”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure our ML models can operate at massive scale; Translate requirements into robust, scalable ML infrastructure solutions; Enable AI/ML, LLM, and Agentic Systems teams for scale; Deliver impact, learning, and growth across teams; Support rapid experimentation; Support reliable model deployment; Support continuous improvement; Solve complex problems around model scalability; Solve complex problems around deployment reliability; Solve complex problems around infrastructure efficiency

Industry & Context.

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What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Hands-on technical role as a tech lead or a manager with a focus on infrastructure, MLOps and distributed systems, People-first mindset, Demonstrated past record of learning from and teaching peers in areas of ML infrastructure, model deployment, distributed compute, GPU optimization, and MLOps system architecture

Nice to Have

Fluency in life sciences or drug discovery

What You'll Do.

Lead ML infrastructure team

Build ML infrastructure

Scale ML infrastructure

Optimize ML infrastructure

Ensure ML models operate at scale

Translate requirements into ML infrastructure solutions

Build and operate platforms for data scientists

Build and operate platforms for ML engineers

Work with researchers

Build scalable solutions

Enable model development

Enable model training

Enable model deployment

Share technical skills

Share leadership skills

Share managerial skills

Partner with ML research

Partner with platform engineering

Partner with business teams

Ensure ML infrastructure supports experimentation

Ensure ML infrastructure supports deployment

Ensure ML infrastructure supports improvement

Optimize GPU cluster utilization

Implement Agentic orchestration

Establish MLOps standards

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work cross-functionally across ML engineering, data science, and research teams; Work across organizational boundaries; Partner with ML research, platform engineering, and business teams; Work with stakeholders across the business; Work together on engineering leadership craft; Debate ML system architecture; Debate MLOps patterns; Debate infrastructure optimization strategies; Support coworkers in growth and experience; Learn together to solve complex problems; True cross-functional collaboration

Full Job Description

Your work will change lives. Including your own. The Impact You’ll Make You will lead a team working to build, scale, and optimize the machine learning infrastructure that powers Recursion's drug discovery platform. From model training pipelines to production deployment systems, to agent infrastructure and Large Language Models, you will ensure our ML models can operate at massive scale across our supercomputing infrastructure, both on prem and in the cloud. You will work cross-functionally across ML engineering, data science, and research teams to translate requirements into robust, scalable ML infrastructure solutions. In This Role You Will: Enable AI/ML, LLM, and Agentic Systems teams for scale - The ML infrastructure team is responsible for building and operating platforms that allow data scientists and ML engineers to train, deploy, and monitor models across Recursion's massive datasets. With billions of compounds, 30+ petabytes of experimental data, and complex deep learning workloads, your team enables everything from automated compound screening models to clinical trial prediction systems. You will work closely with researchers and ML engineers to understand their infrastructure needs and build scalable solutions for model development, training, and deployment. Act as a mentor, coach, and sponsor - You will share your technical, leadership and managerial skills in MLOps, distributed computing, and infrastructure engineering, delivering impact, learning, and growth across teams at Recursion. We believe that the best work comes from working across organizational boundaries and you will have opportunities to partner with ML research, platform engineering, and business teams. Enable a model-driven culture - Machine learning is at the core of everything we do. You will work with stakeholders across the business to ensure our ML infrastructure supports rapid experimentation, reliable model deployment, and continuous improvement. Problems you will work on could ran

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