Scientist, Multiomics Assay Development

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

• Contribute directly to Recursion’s mission of revolutionizing drug discovery through our automation- and AI-powered platform.
• Join initiatives to develop, validate, and scale high-throughput assays on our multiomics platforms, including whole-genome CRISPR screening, enabling the construction of Recursion’s Maps of Biology across diverse and often challenging human cell types.
• Analyze experimental data rigorously to validate processes, troubleshoot systems, and drive innovation—sharing findings and collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team to refine strategy and direction.
• Conduct impactful research in a matrixed environment where your insights and ideas are highly valued and expected.
• Play a key role in growing our team, building foundational workflows, and expanding our capabilities through effective teamwork and collaboration.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be an integral part of a truly cross-functional multiomics assay development team boldly redefining preclinical drug discovery.  You’ll join an environment that thrives on collaboration, open communication, and teamwork across multiple departments. This team works closely to develop and scale assays that enable Recursion to expand its growing Map of Biology; to do this you will also work closely with biologists, assay development associates, data scientists, software engineers, automation engineers, and our supply chain team, among others. This team’s key output are robust assays for deployment on our high throughput screening platform, that integrates industry-leading automation to generate petabytes of high-dimensional data from human cells. 

Strong communication skills are essential to our success, as much of our coordination and reporting happens electronically. We deeply value independent thought, self-reflection, and a growth mindset, with a shared goal of fostering continuous improvement—both individually and as a team. Your actions will play a vital role in building and sustaining a strong, cohesive team culture that prioritizes collaboration, mutual support, and shared success. 

We also believe that the best ideas come from diverse perspectives, so your voice matters here. If you have suggestions or ideas to improve the way we work, we welcome and encourage you to share them. Together, we aim to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute, learn, and thrive as a team.

The Experience You’ll Need

• B.S. or M.Sc. in Biology, Biochemistry, Neurobiology or related field with 7 years of relevant industry experience or a PhD in Biology, Biotechnology or related field.
• A passion for working in a fast-paced environment where you’ll leverage creativity and independent thinking to develop high throughput assays at the leading edge of genome-wide screening and early stage drug screening of challenging cellular types and models.
• Demonstrated experience in molecular and cell biology concepts and assays, including cell culture, transfection, and genetic manipulation, immunology and inflammation assay development. (experience with CRISPR gene editing is desirable)
• Experience moving forward scientific projects independently and efficiently.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and quickly learn to use new techniques and instrumentation.
• Some familiarity/comfort with computational tools and statistical data analysis is desirable.
• Experience working with automated computer-controlled laboratory instrumentation is highly desirable.
• Expertise in Immunology and Inflammation is highly preferred.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.

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 $94,600 to $118,600 (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 leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) 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.