Benchling
Role Overview
Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market. We’re a team focused on shipping AI agents for scientists, automating scientific work such as experiment design, data capture, analysis, and report writing. As an engineer, you’ll design the agent architecture and build intuitive interfaces that help scientists accelerate breakthroughs.
Responsibilities
Build end‑to‑end AI agents , prototyping and productionizing systems that automate scientific work, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting.
Work directly with customers
to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and onboard scientific teams.
Engineer across the stack , from developing new LLM‑powered primitives to shipping intuitive user interfaces inside Benchling’s applications.
Continuously improve our agent platform , contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate future agent development.
Shape how we build AI at Benchling , driving experimentation, contributing to technical direction, and helping evolve our engineering and product development practices as the field matures.
Qualifications
3+ years of professional software engineering experience , building and maintaining production systems.
Experience across the stack , comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar languages) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
Strong product sense , with the ability to iterate quickly and refine solutions based on user feedback and data.
Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents , and a desire to shape how they can transform scientific research.
Collaborative mindset , able to work closely with engineers, product managers, and scientists to bring new ideas to life.
Desire to work in a fast‑paced environment , where priorities can shift and rapid experimentation is encouraged.
Interest in learning about biotechnology
(no prior knowledge required, just a willingness to learn and adapt).
How We Work This is an in‑person team in San Francisco built around collaborating in the office in a fast‑paced environment. We’re in the office Monday through Friday.
Salary Range Benchling takes a market‑based approach to pay. For this role the base salary range is $165,113 to $223,388.
Benefits
Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Fertility healthcare and family‑forming benefits
Four months of fully paid parental leave
401(k) + Employer Match
Commuter benefits for in‑office employees and a generous home‑office set‑up stipend for remote employees
Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
Monthly wellness stipend
Learning and development stipend
Generous and flexible vacation
Company‑wide winter holiday shutdown
Sabbaticals for 5‑year and 10‑year anniversaries
Equal Opportunity We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Responsibilities
Build end‑to‑end AI agents , prototyping and productionizing systems that automate scientific work, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting.
Work directly with customers
to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and onboard scientific teams.
Engineer across the stack , from developing new LLM‑powered primitives to shipping intuitive user interfaces inside Benchling’s applications.
Continuously improve our agent platform , contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate future agent development.
Shape how we build AI at Benchling , driving experimentation, contributing to technical direction, and helping evolve our engineering and product development practices as the field matures.
Qualifications
3+ years of professional software engineering experience , building and maintaining production systems.
Experience across the stack , comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar languages) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
Strong product sense , with the ability to iterate quickly and refine solutions based on user feedback and data.
Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents , and a desire to shape how they can transform scientific research.
Collaborative mindset , able to work closely with engineers, product managers, and scientists to bring new ideas to life.
Desire to work in a fast‑paced environment , where priorities can shift and rapid experimentation is encouraged.
Interest in learning about biotechnology
(no prior knowledge required, just a willingness to learn and adapt).
How We Work This is an in‑person team in San Francisco built around collaborating in the office in a fast‑paced environment. We’re in the office Monday through Friday.
Salary Range Benchling takes a market‑based approach to pay. For this role the base salary range is $165,113 to $223,388.
Benefits
Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Fertility healthcare and family‑forming benefits
Four months of fully paid parental leave
401(k) + Employer Match
Commuter benefits for in‑office employees and a generous home‑office set‑up stipend for remote employees
Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
Monthly wellness stipend
Learning and development stipend
Generous and flexible vacation
Company‑wide winter holiday shutdown
Sabbaticals for 5‑year and 10‑year anniversaries
Equal Opportunity We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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