Lab Technician, Compound Management, Contractor

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

At Recursion, we combine experimental biology, automation and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for human diseases. Each week we knit together big data, biology, and robotics to capture hundreds of thousands of observations. Using genetic manipulation, we create disease models in relevant human cell types, then use high throughput imaging coupled with automated image analysis to identify compounds that reverse cellular disease phenotypes. At Recursion, we’re focused on conducting scalable biology, and leveraging automation to extract maximum value from every minute we spend in the laboratory.

HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE

Your work as part of our Compound Management team will significantly increase the speed of our drug discovery platform and will help us achieve our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.

As a Technician, you’ll play an essential role in provisioning drug candidates by ordering, solubilizing, and distributing compounds throughout our R&D laboratories. On any given day, you will draw upon your knowledge of Chemistry and work with computer-controlled automated laboratory instrumentation to prepare compounds for screening. You can expect to work on multiple projects at the same time, in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

  • Execute critical operations with careful attention to detail, consistency, and documentation.
  • Collaborate with our biological and computational science teams to develop the most efficient path to success across all of our laboratory assays.
  • Grow your knowledge base and learn about new approaches and techniques in Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Data Science.

***This contract will be for a minimum of 6-9 months.***

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

  • A Bachelor's degree in a life sciences field or working toward one 
  • Proficiency and experience in chemistry concepts and assays
  • Experience working with automated computer-controlled laboratory instrumentation
  • Some familiarity/comfort with computational tools is desirable (we embrace the efficiency that comes with leveraging computers)
  • The ability to think on your feet. We're looking for technicians who know when they need to ask for help/insights from their teammates, but can also figure most things out for themselves when needed

 

 

The Values That We Hope You Share:

  • We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
  • We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
  • We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
  • Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
  • We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Central to our mission is the Recursion Operating System, or Recursion OS, that combines an advanced infrastructure layer to generate what we believe is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing proprietary biological and chemical datasets and the Recursion Map, a suite of custom software, algorithms, and machine learning tools that we use to explore foundational biology unconstrained by human bias and navigate to new biological insights which may accelerate our programs. We are a biotechnology company scaling more like a technology company. Recursion is proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City. 

Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  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. 

Recursion is a biotech company decoding biology with innovative technology to revolutionize drug discovery and improve lives.

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