Research Associate, Assay Operations (Contractor)

The Impact You’ll Make

Your work as part of our High Throughput Screening (HTS) team will significantly increase the speed of our drug discovery platform and help achieve our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.

Execute High-Throughput Experiments

• Carry out hundreds of high-content screens per year using basic molecular biology techniques and automated laboratory instrumentation in 384- and 1536-well microplates.
• Prioritize production-focused assay work as your highest priority, ensuring full adherence to established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), quality standards, and safety requirements.

Maintain Lab Excellence

• Perform equipment maintenance, Quality Control (QC) validations, reagent preparation, and monitor experiments to ensure operational sustainability.

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Participate in projects aimed at improving laboratory performance, increasing throughput, and reducing "toil" through automation and process optimization.

Communicate Proactively

• Take ownership of assigned work and proactively communicate assay status, risks, and delays to stakeholders.

Collaborate and Develop

• Participate in cross-training efforts to increase team flexibility and expand your own technical skills in the multi-omics space.

The Team You’ll Join

You will join a high-performing, mission-focused group in our high-throughput screening platform. This is a dynamic team that is tenacious in problem-solving and rigorous in challenging the status quo, while maintaining an incredibly supportive and collaborative environment.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Education: A Bachelor’s degree or similar in a biological field.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in molecular biology concepts and experience with automated, computer-controlled laboratory instrumentation.
• Computational Comfort: Familiarity with computational tools to leverage efficiency.
• Mindset: The ability to think on your feet, knowing when to ask for help and when to figure things out independently.
• Culture Fit: A passion for working in a fast-paced environment where you can leverage creativity and independent thinking.

Nice-to-Haves

• Automation Experience: Experience working with and maintaining liquid handlers like Agilent BioTek EL406s, Beckman Coulter Echo Liquid Handlers, and Hamilton Microlab STAR Liquid Handlers.
• Coding Experience: Familiarity with coding, particularly with Python.

Working Hours

This is a 6-month contractor role with working hours from 8:00am to 6:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday.

The Values We Hope You Share

• We act boldly with integrity.
• We care deeply and engage directly.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting.
• We take ownership and accountability.
• We are One Recursion.

About Recursion

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical-stage TechBio company decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.