Laboratory Operations Assistant

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

You will fill a vital support role that is crucial to ensure Recursion's global laboratories operate smoothly, safely, and efficiently. You will be actively involved in maintaining the readiness and organization of lab spaces through routine task execution. Specifically, you will contribute to the comprehensive management of laboratory supplies and resources, including stocking and organizing reagents and consumables, preparing equipment and glassware through autoclaving, and ensuring proper waste removal and treatment according to safety protocols. Furthermore, your responsibilities will extend to other global laboratory support initiatives and cross-functional work, including general cleaning, organizing, and optimizing lab areas, assisting with basic equipment and lab readiness checks, maintaining inventory documentation, and supporting facility initiatives related to lab upkeep. Ultimately, your contributions will significantly decrease the routine, task-based burden on scientific teams, while increasing overall efficiency and laboratory productivity by ensuring essential resources are readily available and lab environments are maintained.

In this role, you will:

• Learn by observing globally how our laboratory operations run and how your support tasks contribute to their daily flow and industrialization.
• Execute task-based work such as stocking, autoclaving, and waste management across diverse lab environments and physical locations.
• Demonstrate flexibility and time optimization to manage a variety of competing daily priorities and be able to shift and adapt at a moment’s notice.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the Global Lab Services team and across all lab-facing and support staff to assist with, crosstrain, understand, and support global laboratory readiness programs.

The Team You’ll Join 

You will be joining the Global Lab Services team at Recursion, which works to support lab and site operations across laboratory footprints in the US and the UK. You’ll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to expand and enable Recursion to continue to grow and succeed in our mission to decode biology.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Preference given for previous laboratory or operations experience
• Proven track record of 3+ years of consistent and dependable work performance.
• Strong organization skills and a proven ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lift 50 + lbs

Working Location & Compensation:

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City. This position is 100% onsite work; occasional weekend work may be required.

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: $64,600 - $84,000 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.