Compound Management Returnship

We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build a next-generation biopharmaceutical company. It’s complex biology, decoded.

 Recursion is a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery. We are working to solve some of the hardest, most meaningful problems facing human health today. Come join us in our mission to decode biology to radically improve lives, while doing the most impactful work of your life.

Recursion’s Returnship Program

Our Returnship program is sponsored by the Women at Recursion Employee Resource Group. The program is aimed at helping those who have taken a hiatus (2+ years) from the STEM industry have the opportunity to return to the workforce in a learning environment with support from teams and mentors. This allows our company to tap into an underutilized pool of talent in Utah, and leverage the experience and skills of previous work and life experiences, while also providing opportunity to learn and develop experience in new cutting-edge tools and technology. This sixteen-week program will enable you to have ownership of projects that can deeply impact the company’s mission to radically decode biology and serve patients, while having the guidance, support and mentorship has you re-enter the workforce. Each Returner will be assigned a mentor who will meet with them weekly, as well as weekly seminars on workplace culture, communication and technology.

Our returner program lasts 4 months, running from February 2025 through end of May 2025, with potential for transition into full-time employment depending on performance and availability. This position is based in our Salt Lake City, UT headquarters, with some hybrid working flexibility available. 

 

Compound Management Returnship

You will join our growing Compound Management team which consists of a small team of associates all working collaboratively to significantly increase the speed of our drug discovery platform and phenomics that will help us achieve our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.

Working in Compound Management, you’ll help provision drug candidates and disease perturbantes by ordering, solubilizing, and distributing reagents throughout our R&D laboratories and organizing large library purchases. On any given day, you will draw upon your knowledge of Chemistry and work with computer-controlled automated laboratory instrumentation to prepare reagents for screening. You can expect to manage and work on multiple projects at the same time, in a collaborative environment. We are seeking an individual who has strong analytical and problem solving skills, and can work in a fast-paced environment both as a collaborative team member and an individual contributor.

 You will work on projects to: 

• Manage inventory projection with careful attention to detail, consistency, and documentation while delivering reagent plates as the foundational data source for the discovery platform.
• Collaborate with our biological, engineering and computational science teams to develop the most efficient path to success across existing processes and developing new ones where needed.
• Grow your knowledge base and learn about new approaches and techniques in Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Data Science.
• Participate in the organization and maintenance of a growing Compound Management lab. 

The Recursion Community

While we offer cutting-edge tools, the secret sauce is our people. Our organization structure and culture isn’t driven by politics or ego, it is designed first and foremost to help you do your best work. We live and work by values that we see as the strategic differentiators that give us a competitive advantage, allowing for better and faster work that isn’t predicated on burnout and encourages us to make leaps where others take steps. This is a place where people in every role and every level make the bold bets that create large leaps forward on a regular basis! 

The Experience You’ll Need

• Must have 3 years working experience in a research laboratory, preferably with mammalian cell culture
• -and-
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, or related major.
• Must have taken a 2+ year break from employment
• A strong desire to learn with excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Are attentive to detail and have the ability to accurately record experimental details and results
• Enjoy working both independently and collaboratively with a team in a laboratory setting
• Thrive in fast-paced environments where you’ll leverage creativity and independent thinking

The Perks You’ll Enjoy as a Returner Recursionaut: 

• Paid PTO, including sick pay and a one-week break for spring break and additional flexibility as needed. 
• Complimentary chef-prepared lunches and well-stocked snack bars (Salt Lake City)
• One-of-a-kind 100,000 square foot headquarters complete with a 70-foot climbing wall, showers, lockers and bike parking (Salt Lake City)
• Weekly Returners Skill Development Classes
• 1:1 Weekly Mentorship