Laboratory Technician, Compound Management

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Recursion is seeking a Laboratory Technician, Compound Management, full-time onsite at Milton Park, Abingdon, UK. You’ll support compound handling, supplies, and general lab operations in an automated environment, ensuring readiness, safety and smooth workflows with scientists. The role emphasizes weighing and solubilisation of compounds, inventory control, and accurate record-keeping while coordinating with internal teams and external suppliers. Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s in Chemistry or Life Sciences, have lab support experience, and show attention to detail, organization, and adaptability in a fast-paced setting. Base salary £41k-£44.4k, bonus, equity, benefits; tips: tailor your CV to SOPs, inventory management, automation experience, and emphasize collaboration, data quality, onsite availability and alignment with Recursion values.

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 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.