Software Engineer, Agents

Benchling
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 194,369 - 265,388 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Product sense","Collaboration","Curiosity","Rapid iteration","Customer focus"]

Build end-to-end AI agents that automate scientific workflows, from experiment design and structured data capture to analysis and reporting. Work closely with customers to define use cases and onboard scientific teams, then engineer across the stack with LLM-powered primitives and intuitive interfaces inside Benchling. Contribute to agent platform frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure, and help evolve technical direction through rapid iteration in a fast-paced AI R&D environment.

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Benchling
Benchling
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Software Engineer, Agents

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Job Summary

Build end-to-end AI agents that automate scientific workflows, from experiment design and structured data capture to analysis and reporting. Work closely with customers to define use cases and onboard scientific teams, then engineer across the stack with LLM-powered primitives and intuitive interfaces inside Benchling. Contribute to agent platform frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure, and help evolve technical direction through rapid iteration in a fast-paced AI R&D environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build end-to-end AI agents that automate scientific work, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting.
  • •Partner with customers to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and onboard scientific teams.
  • •Engineer across the stack by developing LLM-powered primitives and shipping intuitive user interfaces inside Benchling.
  • •Improve the agent platform by contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate agent development.
  • •Help shape how AI is built at Benchling by driving experimentation and evolving engineering and product practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 194,369 - 265,388 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
  • •Experience across the stack; comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
  • •Strong product sense with the ability to iterate quickly using user feedback and data.
  • •Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents, with a desire to shape how they transform scientific research.
  • •Collaborative mindset working with engineers, product managers, and scientists in a fast-paced environment.
Experience:8+ yearsBiotechnologyAILLMs
Skills:Product senseCollaborationCuriosityRapid iterationCustomer focus
Tech Stack:PythonReactLLMsAI agents

Company Brief

Benchling
Provides a cloud-based R&D Cloud and laboratory informatics platform that centralizes scientific data, streamlines experiments, and accelerates biotechnology and life-science research and development for biotech, pharma, and academic teams.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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Glassdoor: 3.5
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