Research Associate Intern
Recursion
Research Associate Intern
Recursion
Data-driven drug discovery platform leveraging datasets
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
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 Multi-Omics Assay Development (MOAD) team is excited to welcome a Research Associate with a passion for laboratory-based assay development, critical thinking, and collaboration as part of the Recursion Returnship program. The MOAD team develops biologically relevant cellular based assays for screening on Recursion’s state of the art high throughput screening (HTS) platform to decode biology and improve patient lives.
As a Research Associate on the MOAD team, you will work under the direction of a Senior Scientist and collaborate with cross-functional teams across a variety of areas including MOAD, biology, engineering, data science, HTS, and tissue culture to develop, scale, optimize, and execute biological assays. The MOAD team is seeking an individual with a growth mindset who is a proactive communicator and takes initiative while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Flexibility, attention to detail, and strong time management skills are essential to succeed in this role.
Working as a member of the MOAD team, you will:
The Recursion Community
Cutting-edge tools matter, but our people are what set us apart. Our structure and culture are built to help you do your best work, not to feed politics or ego. We live by values that give us a real competitive advantage. They help us work better and faster without relying on burnout, and they encourage us to make leaps where others take steps. People in every role and at every level make the bold bets that move us forward.
The Returnship gives you a front-row seat to this culture. From your first week, you’ll work alongside teams who value collaboration over ego, with a mentor in your corner and real ownership of projects that matter. You won’t be on the sidelines while you ramp up.
The Experience You’ll Need
The Values We Hope You Share:
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 decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting.
Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on X 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.
Recursion uses a data-driven platform to speed up drug discovery in TechBio by combining large biological and patient datasets with wet-lab experiments. It runs tens of thousands of experiments weekly to profile genes and compounds across many cell types, and processes results on its BioHive 1 supercomputer to map billions of gene–compound relationships. This approach lets Recursion identify potential drug candidates by turning experimental data into actionable insights, and it collaborates through strategic partnerships with pharma companies, labs, and healthcare providers rather than pursuing traditional in-house discovery alone. Its goal is to decode biology at scale and translate findings into new medicines that help patients.
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