3 months ago
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
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.