Research Associate, Compound Management

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is pioneering a new approach to drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. We are seeking a Research Associate for our Compound Management group to help accelerate our discovery programs and clinical portfolio. In this role, you will supply drug candidates and disease perturbants, handling the ordering, weighing, and solubilization of reagents while running automated systems to generate the assay plates that power our platform. 

You will manage multiple projects simultaneously, using pipetting skills and software-driven instrumentation to prepare reagents for high-throughput screening. This position offers a collaborative environment and substantial scope for continuous learning, encouraging you to evaluate and deploy the latest technological developments to create efficient, scalable workflows. We are seeking an individual with strong analytical skills who can thrive as both a team player and an independent contributor. 

In this role, you will:

• Build the foundational data source for the discovery platform by managing inventory projection with careful attention to detail, consistency, and documentation while delivering high-quality reagent samples for high-throughput screening. 
• Create and innovate new processes where needed by collaborating with our biological, engineering, and computational science teams to develop the most efficient path to success for compound delivery and assay execution.
• Expand your skillsets in Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Data Science to adopt cutting-edge techniques and solve complex laboratory challenges. 
• Optimize and maintain the organization of a growing Compound Management lab to ensure scalable, high-precision reagent delivery. 

The Team You’ll Join 

You will join our Compound Management team, a lean, high-impact and collaborative group of scientists who own the end-to-end lifecycle of Recursion’s small-molecule, guide, and biological inventory. Serving as the critical physical link between inventory sourcing and biological data generation, our team ensures all reagents are assay-ready for internal programs and external partners.

As a member of this group, you will maintain the backbone of our discovery engine by leveraging industrial-scale automation to provide the high-volume throughput necessary for large-scale model builds. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment where your work directly supports iterative drug discovery cycles and the generation of high-quality multi-omics data.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or a similar life science field OR some college with 3+ years of experience in sample management within a laboratory. 
• Proficiency in fundamental lab operations, including solubilization and precision weighing; we are looking for someone who is ready to hit the ground running with these core skills. 
• A track record of process improvement, showing you are proactive in identifying and optimizing laboratory workflows rather than simply following established protocols. 
• Hands-on experience with manual pipetting and operating automated laboratory instrumentation (e.g., liquid handlers); experience with software-driven systems is preferred.
• Comfort with computational tools and a data-first mindset, embracing the efficiency of integrated automation and digital workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment to know when to ask for insights from teammates and when to independently troubleshoot solutions. 
• A passion for a fast-paced startup culture where you’ll leverage creativity and independent thinking to drive results.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is a full-time, onsite position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is $77,500 to $97,800 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. 

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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 isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders 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.

Recursion’s 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 www.recursion.com, 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 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.