Recursion
Drug Discovery
EngineeringManager-MachineLearning
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“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 ML models can operate at massive scale; Deliver impact, learning, and growth; Enable everything from automated compound screening models to clinical trial prediction systems
Industry & Context.
Solve complex problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Hands-on technical role, Tech lead, Manager, Infrastructure focus, MLOps focus, Distributed systems focus
Nice to Have
Fluency in life sciences, Fluency in 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 solutions
Build and operate platforms
Partner with ML research
Partner with platform engineering
Partner with business teams
Support rapid experimentation
Ensure reliable model deployment
Drive continuous 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; 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; 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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