19 hours ago
Base Salary
$173k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain full-stack features across the workflow engine, recipes, and assays.
- Contribute to data models for workflow graphs, task execution tracking, and work management.
- Build products on top of the workflow orchestration engine for industry-standard processes.
- Collaborate with the AI Agents team to enable AI-assisted scientific work.
- Write documented and tested code and participate in code reviews.
- Participate in an on-call rotation of approximately 1.5 weeks per person per quarter.
- Partner with product management and design to create intuitive software for complex scientific workflows.
- Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of the engineering workflow.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
- Full-stack experience across backend technologies such as Python and frontend technologies such as React.
- Strong product sense and ability to iterate based on user feedback and changing requirements.
- Ability to collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners.
- Willingness to use AI-assisted development tools such as Cloud agents, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Interest in learning about life sciences; prior biotech experience is not required.
- Willingness to work onsite in the San Francisco office three days per week.
- Preferred experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, or data-flow platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with regulated software environments such as GxP or FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
- Preferred background in React, Python, and PostgreSQL.
- Preferred experience serving large, complex organizations through enterprise B2B SaaS.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement with onsite work expected three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
- Equal opportunity workplace with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
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About Benchling
Benchling builds an R&D cloud and AI platform for life sciences, combining electronic lab notebooks, sample/registry management, workflow automation, and developer APIs to run models and integrate data. It sells subscriptions and services to biopharma, biotech, and research organizations; customers include Sanofi and Moderna. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.