Subject
Eric Hurst
Staff Software Engineer · Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Notebook
EH-001
Date
2026-05-17
Objective
Build software that makes scientists faster. Work at the boundary of wet lab science, full-stack systems, and AI — where the interesting problems live.
Based in Salt Lake City. Single dad. Rocket enthusiast. Sci-fi reader.
Work
HTS screen design application. Enables scientists to build high-throughput screens quickly and reproducibly. Core data generation tool at Recursion.
Laboratory information management. Tracks samples, experiments, and results across research operations. Designed for scientific reproducibility at scale.
Personal interpreted language built on Python. Written to scratch an itch — wanted syntax that fit my own mental model for data transforms and algorithms.
Background
11 years in software. Started in embedded systems at Fusion.io, moved into product engineering at Teem (→ WeWork), then found my way to biotech and never looked back.
At the staff level, I spend as much time on the human side of engineering as the technical — shaping how teams build, mentoring engineers, working across disciplines with scientists.
The hard problems here aren't purely technical — they're about building software that scientists actually trust with their data.