Base Salary
$194k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and productionize end-to-end AI agents that automate scientific workflows including experiment design, data analysis, and report writing.
- Work directly with customers and scientific teams to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and support onboarding.
- Develop LLM-powered backend primitives and intuitive frontend interfaces within Benchling applications.
- Improve the agent platform through frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate future agent development.
- Drive experimentation and contribute to Benchling’s technical direction and AI engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
- Experience across the stack, including backend systems using Python or similar languages and modern frontend frameworks such as React or equivalent.
- Strong product sense and ability to iterate based on user feedback and data.
- Curiosity about LLMs and AI agents and interest in applying them to scientific research.
- Ability to collaborate with engineers, product managers, scientists, customers, and scientific teams.
- Willingness to learn biotechnology; prior biotechnology knowledge is not required.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and rapid experimentation.
Benefits
- In-person role based in San Francisco with collaboration in the office Monday through Friday.
- Benchling supports an inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace and welcomes people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
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About Benchling
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done. Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.