Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then an assistant professor at Amherst College.
[2] She has been recognized as a Saltman Lecturer and Women in Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University.
[3] In 2019, Broderick received the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
[4] She has contributed to bioinorganic chemistry often with a focus on iron-sulfur proteins, including the radical SAM enzymes.
[5] Her research also includes investigations into hydrogenase where she defines the assembly of the enzymes into functional units.