Description
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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Process Development team builds the platform that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to design, execute, and manage complex scientific manufacturing processes at scale. Our workflow engine is the foundational layer , a system that lets scientists and operators model their processes as structured workflows and then execute them reliably, whether one person is doing everything or an entire team is coordinating across steps.
As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll work full-stack across Workflows, Recipes, and Assays , the core products that Benchling customers depend on to run their operations. You'll build features that show up directly in how scientists manage manufacturing workflows, integrate our products with the wider Benchling ecosystem to help customers automate their work, and shape how AI tooling gets integrated into our products.
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)
BENEFITS
- $173,369 – $234,557 • Offers Equity
- Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.