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Software Engineer, Full Stack (Process Execution)

Benchling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$173.4k - $234.6kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Full-stack software engineer role focused on the Process Execution team, building and maintaining the workflow engine, recipes, and assays to enable biotech manufacturing processes at scale, with AI-enabled development practices and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core features across the workflow engine, recipes, and assays — full-stack across backend services and frontend product surfaces
  • Contribute to the data modeling that underpins workflow graph structures, task execution tracking, and work management
  • Build products on top of the workflow orchestration engine for industry standard processes
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the AI Agents team to expose both the workflow engine and products built on top to enable AI-assisted scientific work
  • Write well-documented, well-tested code and participate actively in code review
  • Engage with on-call rotation (approximately 1.5 weeks per person per quarter) to support a customer-facing product used continuously by life science teams
  • Partner with product management and design to translate complex scientific workflow needs into intuitive, reliable software
  • Embrace AI-assisted development practices — this team expects engineers to work alongside and in parallel with agents as a core part of the development workflow

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems
  • Full-stack experience — comfort working across backend (Python or similar) and frontend (React or equivalent)
  • Strong product sense with the ability to iterate based on user feedback and evolving requirements
  • Collaborative mindset — able to work closely with engineers, PMs, and cross-functional partners across a complex codebase
  • Willingness to engage with AI-assisted development tools (Cloud agents, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) as a primary mode of working
  • Interest in learning about life sciences — prior biotech knowledge not required, but genuine curiosity is.
  • Willing to work onsite in our San Francisco office three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)

Skills

Required:Full-stack developmentAI-assisted development tools
Nice to have:Workflow engine / orchestration

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more
  • Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location.
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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