IT Engineering Internship

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

We are seeking a proactive IT Engineering Intern to help enhance our IT workflows mining our data, building repositories and accelerating our workflows using custom-built Bots/AI Agents. In this role, you will collaborate with IT engineers to build tools that enable adaptive access decisions, predictive access workflows, and automated IT workflows. We encourage you to apply if you are passionate about developing  Bots/AI Agents to ensure data-driven decision-making and workflow automation!

The Impact You’ll Make

As an IT and InfoSec engineering intern at Recursion, you will be involved in one or more of the following areas:

• Build an identity and access repository and log repository. You’ll work cross-functionally with IT Engineers to create an identity and access (role) repository and log repository to make adaptive access decisions. 
• Connect our data and build tools to learn and make predictive decisions around access. You'll work with our IT/InfoSec teams to predict access needs and develop workflows to grant access
• Drive data-based decisions from IT Service Management tools. You will help mine our IT Service management data to resolve issues through a virtual service agent
• Build tools to accelerate IT workflows. You'll work cross-functionally with engineers to build out the infrastructure needed to support automated and industrialized IT workflows

The Team You’ll Join 

You’ll join one of the IT teams responsible for building the systems that support the entire organization. You’ll work on real projects as part of the team during your internship. This might include working with enterprise software products, REST APIs, and third-party integrations - seeking and providing feedback and making trade-offs to get the right solution with the right amount of effort.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics/Data Science, or a related field.
• Good understanding of software engineering, security concepts, network protocols, and operating systems.
• Ability to work independently and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• Excitement for Recursion’s mission!
• Fundamental computer science or software engineering courses
• Experience collaborating to complete software projects.
• A people-first mindset. 

How You’ll be Supported

• Career Mentorship - 1on1 support on navigating an IT Engineering/InfoSec career path
• Peer Technical Mentorship - 1on1 support on technical best practices
• Training - Hands-on peer supported training on frameworks and tools that are used by the team

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 is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands 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 London, Toronto, Montreal 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 that values diversity and inclusion.  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. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. 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.