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Software Engineer, Agents

Benchling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$194.4k - $265.4k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

We’re a team shipping AI agents for scientists to automate toil and accelerate breakthroughs, building end-to-end AI agents from architecture to intuitive interfaces within Benchling’s applications.

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).

Skills

Required:Software engineeringFrontend developmentBackend developmentCustomer collaborationTeam collaboration

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k) + employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Benchling is a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development and the only biology-first platform for scientific data, collaboration, and insights.

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