Base Salary
$225k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority for the Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams across studies, workflows, procedures, and bioprocess/bioanalytical workflows.
- Architect and implement solutions spanning system architecture, backend models and APIs, and rich frontend UI for scientific workflows in regulated environments.
- Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives by translating ambiguous scientific and regulatory requirements into technical plans and delivery milestones.
- Make engineering strategy and technical decisions concerning platform reuse, technical debt, and long-term optionality.
- Set engineering direction and raise quality and architecture standards across the Applications division.
- Provide technical leadership through code review, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer and scientific needs into technical solutions.
- Evaluate opportunities to use AI and LLMs to improve lab operations, SOP execution, and time-series analysis.
- Own critical feature delivery from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Improve tooling, engineering processes, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding to help scale the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing scope and impact.
- Experience serving as a technical lead on significant, multi-quarter projects involving multiple engineers.
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications, with the ability to work full-stack when needed.
- Experience designing scalable, robust architectures aligned with business requirements and long-term maintainability.
- Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work spanning multiple teams and shaping a product area or division.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to align engineers around implementation strategies through technical influence.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers and raise standards for testing, performance, and maintainability.
- Interest in learning life sciences; prior biotech, regulated GLP/GMP, or laboratory/manufacturing software experience is appreciated or a plus.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement with in-office collaboration expected 3 days per week: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
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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.