Production Research Associate, Tissue Culture Core - Weekend Shift

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is at the forefront of re-imagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, generation of high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. As a Production Research Associate in the Tissue Culture Core, you’ll play an essential role in identifying drug candidates by producing the cellular resources needed to perform thousands of high content screens per year. You’ll work on multiple concurrent projects, producing billions of cells each week. On any given day, you will perform in vitro culture activities, such as thawing, passaging, and banking of mammalian cells, while employing exceptional aseptic technique. You will be tasked with maintaining a state of the art cell culture facility through reagent preparation, inventory management, QC, and routine lab maintenance. Your work will significantly increase the speed of our drug discovery platform, and will help us achieve our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives. In this role you will:

• Perform important experiments with careful attention to detail, consistency, and documentation
• Collaborate with High Throughput Screening teams to deliver on diverse data sets and build maps of biology, enabling the future of drug discovery
• Grow your knowledge and learn about new approaches and techniques in Molecular Biology and Data Science
• Experience a state of the art cell culture facility deploying the latest in cell culture technology while working on a tight-knit, focused, and spirited Tissue Culture team

Location and Shift:

This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, and supports our weekend day shift (7:30am-4pm) after initial training. Examples: Wednesday-Sunday, Thursday-Monday, or Friday-Tuesday.

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to the Tissue Culture Core Production Supervisor , you’ll join the Tissue Culture Core within Operations. The Tissue Culture Core (TC) provides high-quality, consistent cells for High Throughput Screening (HTS) and Validation efforts in support of drug discovery and development. The Tissue Culture Core produces billions of mammalian cells each week for drug discovery and development through the utilization of bioreactors, layered vessels, and database tracking. This team works closely to meet drug development needs while staying nimble and innovative. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• A Bachelor’s degree in a biological field
• Demonstrated and/or practiced aseptic techniques
• Experience with mammalian in vitro culture systems is a plus
• The ability to work quickly and accurately, organize tasks and deliver quality with efficiency
• Familiarity/comfort with computational tools is desirable (we embrace the efficiency that comes with using computers to document cell expansion and banking activities in real time)
• A passion for working in a fast-paced environment where you’ll leverage creativity and independent thinking when deriving, expanding and banking challenging human cell types
• An interactive, team-oriented style to support the production of high-quality, consistent cells

How You’ll be Supported

• Weekly 1:1’s with supervisor provides opportunity for support, feedback, and establish clear goals 
• Weekly Production meetings and Bi-weekly Tissue Culture Core meetings to stay updated on current needs and timelines
• The Onboarding process offers peer sessions, company culture exposure, and protocol training from our skilled tissue culture staff to foster an industrial mindset.
• Cross-functional interaction and participation across project teams to help grow a culture of collaboration, innovation, and shared success.
• You will be provided opportunities to share your work and teach others new skills, and learn from a wide range of experiences of others both in and outside of your field of expertise

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:

• Developing: $80,000
• Skilled: $88,000
• Expert: $98,000

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You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salari