Research Associate, Assay Operations (Contractor)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact Youll 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. As a Research Associate you will play a critical role in identifying drug candidates by delivering consistent high-quality multi-omics and high-content screening data. This data supports critical decision-making for internal research programs and external partnerships.

In This Role You Will:

• Execute High-Throughput Experiments: Conduct hundreds of high-content screens per year using basic molecular biology techniques and automated laboratory instrumentation in 384- and 1536-well microplates.
• Prioritize Production: Execute production-focused assay work as your highest priority ensuring full adherence to established SOPs quality standards and safety requirements.
• Maintain Lab Excellence: Perform equipment maintenance 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 Youll 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 Youll Need

• Education: A Bachelors 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.

**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 are unconstrained in our thinking take calculated risks and push boundaries but never at the expense of ethics science or trust.
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up speaking honestly and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment test and refine embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isnt about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability we enable trust and autonomyleaders take accountability for decisive action and teams own outcomes together.
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust clarity humility and impact. Through sharing we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate support one another spend our time make decisions and celebrate collectively.

More 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.

Recursions platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City Utah and Milton Park Oxfordshire where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York Montréal and London three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation. Learn more at or connect on X and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state local or provincial human rights legislation.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: 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 Recursions 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.