软件工程师，应用（应用基础）（高级）
Software Engineer, Applications (App Foundations) (High Seniority)
我们正在为人工智能时代重建生物科技。
当突破被延迟时，世界就会等待。将一种分子从发现到患者，或一种作物从实验室到田间，需要数千个缓慢、手动且不连贯的步骤。人工智能有潜力改变这一切，将数十年的研发工作压缩成几年。但只有当干净、结构化的科学数据和人工智能被融入科学研究的过程中，这种改变才会发生。
Benchling 是生物技术研发的人工智能平台。科学家使用 Benchling 来设计实验、捕获结构化数据，并在他们的工作流中直接运行 AI 代理和模型。全球超过 20 万科学家信任 Benchling 来支持他们最重要的工作，从学术实验室到赛诺菲、Moderna，以及世界上前 50 名生物制药公司中的一半以上。
我们正在为客户打造一位人工智能科学家。如果我们自己没有建立起相应的实力，就无法做到这一点。人工智能素养是我们构建的基础；它是我们工作方式的核心，我们致力于帮助每一位新员工将其融入日常工作中。作为我们面试流程的一部分，你将完成一个简短的人工智能相关练习或讨论，以便我们了解你如何思考并利用人工智能在你的角色中推动影响。你可以自由参考你目前使用的任何工具、平台或工作流程。
职位概述
App Foundations 团队——由我们的实验记录本和企业生命周期团队组成——构建了 Benchling 体验的核心界面和系统。一方面，这是科学家每天记录工作的工具——实验记录本和结构化数据输入表格，使实验数据变得干净、结构化并可分析。另一方面，这是确保数据在大规模下可信的企业生命周期功能：审计追踪、审核与批准、导出和备份。这些是出现在 FDA 提交文件和 GxP 合规工作流中的功能，也是让 Benchling 最大的客户——那些开发世界上最创新治疗方案的国际知名公司——能够在合规环境中自信运作的关键。
作为高级别的软件工程师，你将是实验记录本和企业生命周期团队的资深工程负责人——负责影响广泛的系统，同时直接支持企业客户依赖的产品功能。这个职位位于平台与产品工作的交汇点，要求既具备深厚的技术能力，又拥有强大的产品意识。
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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.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The App Foundations group — comprised of our Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams — builds the surfaces and systems at the heart of the Benchling experience. On one side, that's how scientists capture their work every day — the Notebook and the structured data-input tables where experimental data becomes clean, structured, and analyzable. On the other, it's the enterprise lifecycle capabilities that make that data trustworthy at scale: audit trails, review and approval, exports, and backups. These are the features that show up in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows, and they're what lets Benchling's largest customers — internationally recognizable names developing some of the world's most innovative treatments — operate with confidence in regulated environments.
As a Software Engineer at the High Seniority level, you will be the senior engineering authority for the Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams — owning horizontally impactful systems while directly enabling the product features enterprise customers depend on. This role sits squarely at the intersection of platform and product work, and demands both deep technical expertise and strong product sense. You will also serve as an IC leader across the broader Applications division, helping set engineering direction that reaches well beyond any single team.
This role reports to the Head of Engineering for Applications and works day-to-day as the senior IC anchor for the Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the senior technical authority for the Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams, driving the design and development of the Notebook, structured data-input, and enterprise lifecycle systems that anchor the Benchling product.
- Independently architect and implement solutions to complex, open-ended problems — from system architecture to backend models and APIs to rich frontend UI — in areas such as comprehensive audit coverage, review and approval flows, scalable export systems, backups, and document lifecycle management.
- Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives: break down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans and iterative delivery milestones, designing for scale and reliability across a growing enterprise customer base.
- Use technical decision-making as a tool of engineering strategy — knowing when to leverage existing platform capabilities, when to take on technical debt deliberately, and when to preserve optionality for the long term.
- Act as a force multiplier across the Applications division: help set engineering direction, raise standards for quality and architecture, and influence technical choices beyond your immediate teams.
- Provide technical leadership through code review, architectural guidance, and mentorship of engineers across all experience levels.
- Partner closely with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs — including regulatory and compliance needs — into technical solutions.
- Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve data capture, audit reporting, and compliance workflows for our customers.
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure our horizontal systems integrate seamlessly and enable product development across the organization.
- Own end-to-end delivery of critical features — from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring — and help scale our tooling, engineering processes, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated progression of increasing scope and impact.
- Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications, plus the ability to build full-stack when needed. Our stack is a comprehensive React frontend and a Python backend on a predominantly relational data model in Postgres; direct experience is appreciated but not required if you can pick it up quickly.
- Proven ability to design scalable, robust architectures that align with business requirements and long-term maintainability, especially for horizontal systems that many teams build on.
- Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work whose impact spans multiple teams and shapes an entire product area or division.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to produce clear technical designs and use influence rooted in technical expertise to align other engineers on an implementation strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other engineers, raising the team's bar in areas such as testing, performance, and maintainability.
- Interest in learning about life sciences. Prior biotech knowledge is appreciated but not required; enthusiasm to learn is essential. (Experience with audit, compliance, or GxP-regulated software is a plus.)
HOW WE WORK
We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
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Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.