Senior AI Engineer at Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and evolve their internal AI Agent ecosystem within the IT Engineering team. The focus is on complex, scalable agentic frameworks and platforms that systematically eliminate toil.

Key Responsibilities

Architect multi-agent orchestration frameworks handling business and scientific workflows

Design internal developer platforms and shared libraries for organization-wide agent deployment

Engineer autonomous operations and infrastructure-as-code systems

Establish LLMOps observability standards for debugging non-deterministic AI behaviors

Translate business goals into technical architectures with cross-functional leadership

Serve as technical leader, mentoring team through architectural reviews

Required Experience

7+ years software engineering with focus on distributed systems and platform engineering

Production-grade AI solutions experience

Python mastery and modern software design principles

GenAI stack expertise: advanced RAG, vector stores, stateful agent memory

Shared library development demonstrated success

Expert API design and middleware for secure AI-enterprise integration

LLMOps: observability, evaluation frameworks, async agent debugging

Superior communication translating technical trade-offs to business value

Nice-to-Haves

Computer Science degree or ML/AI research experience

Knowledge Graphs and GraphRAG familiarity

Fine-tuning open-weights models or Small Language Model implementation

PII/PHI compliance and guardrails

Terraform or Pulumi expertise

Event-driven architecture design

Compensation: $134,200 - $205,800 base annually, plus annual bonus and equity compensation.

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package included.

Hybrid role with minimum 50% in-office at New York, NY or Salt Lake City, UT.