Analytical Chemistry Intern (2024)

The Impact You Will Make

Recursion is the leader in tech-bio, harnessing our ability to produce and compute large amounts of data in an effort to industrialize drug discovery.  As a summer Chemistry Intern, you will contribute to a team of chemists, biologists, automation engineers and data scientists who are collectively working on our mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.  By leveraging your experience in these fields you will:

• Engage in and lead a project that harnesses Analytical Chemistry, biochemistry, and data science to continue our build of industrialized drug discovery workflows
• Bring insights into new technologies and methodologies that can be incorporated into our operating system, with primary consideration given to mass spectrometry
• Gain invaluable experience in a cutting edge drug discovery environment

You'll play a critical role in identifying drug candidates and characterizing  a compound's drug-like properties by executing a panel of assays.  On a daily basis, you will draw upon basic molecular biology and Analytical Chemistry techniques and interact with a variety of laboratory instrumentation. You can expect to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment. On normal workdays, this will include preparing instrumentation for daily use, preparing reagents, performing routine maintenance on equipment, checking for experimental readiness, overseeing experimental execution, performing routine data analysis and QC checks, and completing laboratory documentation. 

• Influence - Help operate a world class automated lab workcell, generating data that feeds into our industrialized workflows
• Deliver - Execute on requested experiments that generate data to help us understand molecules
• Achieve - Work with internal and external partners to deliver high-quality in vitro results with speed and focus to enable decision making on a rapidly growing portfolio of pre-clinical programs
• Collaborate - Work in a cross-functional matrix organization with fellow biologists, chemists, data scientists, and data engineers with a passion for drug discovery

The Team You Will Join 

Reporting to the Senior Director, Chemistry, you'll be joining the Preclinical Sciences team within the Medicines  group. This team works across the breadth of the drug discovery and development pipeline at Recursion, delivering data packages that drive decisions on compound optimization.  This high performing team works together to continually improve our workflows to drive towards greater efficiency.

Location and Schedule

This position is based at our headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City.  The qualified candidate will be expected to work full time, typically Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM.  

The Experience You Will Need

• Bachelors in the Life Sciences
• Ability to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Able to work as part of a team to produce repeatable quality results
• Strong organizational and record keeping skills
• Ability to troubleshoot and identify problems that may adversely affect test performance and/or reporting of test results
• Experience operating high performance liquid handling equipment or liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry systems (preferred)

How You Will be Supported

• Extensive training will be provided to enable you to work safely in the lab environment.
• You will join an interdisciplinary team that has a major impact internally and externally
• Internal support by a variety of operational centers across Recursion will increase your skill set and knowledge around lab automation, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, assay execution, and data processing.

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