Hey all this is extremely helpful! Galgamesh you are exactly right that this is in line with The Conversation, The Game, also Shutter Island.

The inciting incident: She is recruited to replace the lead engineer on the team.
Her goal: She is ambitious. She wants to be known for creating a technology that revolutionizes the human race.

Here is another try:

An ambitious computer-scientist is recruited to lead a team developing revolutionary microchips tested in the brains of animals. But a series of cryptic visions cause her to fear that she is a subject in the experiment.