Research Associate, Global Lab Services Returnship
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
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We are building a future where biology is solvable.
The path to new medicines is currently slow and expensive, with high failure rates, leaving millions of patients waiting for new treatment options. Our story is one of innovation: applying AI, vast datasets, and industrial scale to decode biology and accelerate the development of life-changing treatments.
Recursion’s Returnship Program
Recursion’s Returnship program, sponsored by the Women at Recursion Employee Resource Group, helps professionals who have taken a break of two or more years from the STEM industry return to the workforce. Participants work in a supportive, learning-focused environment with guidance from their teams and mentors.
Our program benefits both sides. You’ll own projects that directly advance our mission to radically decode biology and serve patients, and you’ll build experience with new, cutting-edge tools and technology. In turn, Recursion gains access to an underutilized pool of talent in Utah and benefits from the skills and experience you’ve built through your work and life.
What you’ll get
- A dedicated mentor who meets with you weekly
- Weekly seminars on workplace culture, communication, and technology
- Support from your team as you re-enter the workforce
Our program runs for sixteen weeks, from March 2027 through the end of June 2027. Depending on performance and business needs, it may lead to full-time employment. This position is primarily based at our Salt Lake City, UT headquarters, with some hybrid flexibility.
Research Associate Returnship
The Global Lab Services team keeps Recursion’s laboratories safe, compliant, and running smoothly. Our team covers equipment, facilities, environmental health and safety (EHS), and lab operations, and we work closely with scientific teams across the company, including biologists, chemists, automation and software engineers, assay operations, and data scientists. When an operational problem slows down the science, we find out why and build a lasting fix.
As a Research Associate, you will collaborate closely with the Global Lab Services team and the scientific teams it supports to design and develop programs for lab operations, from understanding the problem through building the structure that keeps a program running day to day. We are seeking an individual who is curious about how labs run, enjoys digging into operational hurdles to find their root cause, and is comfortable planning, organizing, and working across teams to arrive at practical solutions. Experience building SOPs, software tools, or AI interfaces is a plus. A strong desire to learn new skills, tools, and approaches is essential to thrive in our fast-paced environment.
Working alongside Recursion’s Global Lab Services team, you will work on projects such as:
- Develop environmental monitoring and tracking programs: Build a process to respond to, document, and track environmental baseline conditions and contamination events across our labs, including root-cause investigation ...
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