软件工程师，应用（科学开发解决方案）（高资深度）
Software Engineer, Applications (Scientific Development Solutions) (High Seniority)
我们正在为人工智能时代重塑生物科技。
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、手动且脱节的步骤。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方式中，这种改变才会发生。
Benchling 是生物技术研究与开发的人工智能平台。科学家使用 Benchling 来设计实验、捕获结构化数据，并在他们的工作流程中直接运行 AI 代理和模型。全球超过 20 万名科学家信任 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 强生物制药公司的一半以上。
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这个能力，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产生影响。你可以自由参考你目前使用的任何工具、平台或工作流程。
职位概览
科学开发解决方案（SDS）团队——由我们的研究生命周期和流程执行团队组成——构建了生物学家依赖的产品，以大规模运行复杂的实验室操作：开发、验证和执行严格的 SOP；捕获和分析复杂的时间序列数据；协调样本管理、分析化学和生物工艺开发背后的生物和 IT 驱动的工作流程。SDS 负责 Benchling 的研究、工作流程和规程产品——“Benchling for Development”解决方案的核心——并且我们的工作经常被那些具有最严格 GLP/GMP 法规需求的企业客户所寻求。成功的部署显著加快了客户将疗法推向市场的速度。
作为高级别的软件工程师，你将成为与研究生命周期和流程执行团队合作的资深工程负责人——那个架构最复杂系统、设定技术标准，并放大你周围每位工程师产出的人。你将设计和构建跨研究、工作流程、规程以及生物工艺/生物分析用例的全栈系统，将模糊的科学需求转化为具体的技术实现。
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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 Scientific Development Solutions (SDS) group — comprised of our Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams — builds the products biologists rely on to run complex lab operations at scale: developing, qualifying, and executing rigorous SOPs; capturing and analyzing complex time-series data; and orchestrating the biological and IT-driven workflows behind sample management, analytical chemistry, and bioprocess development. SDS owns Benchling's Studies, Workflows, and Procedures products — the core of our "Benchling for Development" solution — and our work is frequently sought out by the enterprise customers with the most demanding GLP/GMP regulatory needs. Successful deployments measurably accelerate how quickly our customers bring therapies to market.
As a Software Engineer at the High Seniority level, you will be the senior engineering authority partnering with the Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams — the person who architects the hardest systems, sets the technical bar, and multiplies the output of every engineer around you. You'll design and build full-stack across studies, workflows, procedures, and bioprocess/bioanalytical use cases, translating ambiguous scientific and regulatory requirements into durable systems. 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 Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the senior technical authority for the Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams, driving the design and development of systems that advance Benchling's product and business goals across studies, workflows, procedures, and bioprocess/bioanalytical workflows.
- Independently architect and implement solutions to complex, open-ended problems — from system architecture to backend models and APIs to rich frontend UI — for scientific workflows used in regulated (GLP/GMP) environments.
- Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives: break down ambiguous scientific and regulatory requirements into concrete technical plans and iterative delivery milestones.
- 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 and scientific needs into technical solutions.
- Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to make lab operations, SOP execution, and time-series analysis faster and more reliable for scientists.
- Own end-to-end delivery of critical features — from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Help build and scale the team by improving 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.
- 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 regulated, GLP/GMP, or laboratory/manufacturing 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.