Job Description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
As a Laboratory Technician at Recursion, you will play a vital role in enabling the smooth and efficient operation of our laboratory. By supporting compound handling and ensuring that supplies, equipment, and workspaces are consistently maintained, your work will directly support both manual and automated experimental workflows. Through close collaboration with scientists and laboratory management, you will help ensure that our highly automated laboratory environment operates reliably, safely, and at pace.
In this role, you will:
Handle Compounds: Perform the receipt, weighing, and solubilisation of compounds in accordance with established procedures
Manage Supplies and Consumables: Order, receive, store, and monitor laboratory consumables and reagents to maintain uninterrupted workflows
Provide General Laboratory Support: Support day-to-day laboratory operations and respond to ad hoc requests from scientific teams
Support Automated Workflows: Ensure automated platforms are supplied with appropriate consumables and materials and assist with routine checks
Communicate Effectively: Work closely with internal teams and external suppliers, maintaining accurate records and documentation
Maintain Laboratory Readiness: Ensure laboratory spaces are clean, organised, and compliant with health and safety requirements
The Team You’ll Join
You will be joining the Compound Management team, a collaborative group at the heart of our discovery engine. This team is responsible for the critical task of provisioning drug candidates and reagents for our R&D laboratories, working daily with state-of-the-art robotic platforms and laboratory automation.
The Experience You’ll Need
Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field
Previous experience working as a laboratory technician or in a laboratory support role
High attention to detail and strong record-keeping skills
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple requests and timelines while maintaining high data quality standards
A passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and the ability to adapt to changing priorities
Working Location & Compensation:
This is a full-time onsite lab based position at our office located in Milton Park, Abingdon, UK. 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 £41,000 to £44,400. 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 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.
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.