Software Engineer, Agents

Benchling

Software Engineer creating end-to-end AI agents to automate scientific workflows. Collaborating with a team to deliver impactful solutions in biotechnology.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $173,369 - $234,388 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build end-to-end AI agents, prototyping and productionizing systems that automate scientific work, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting.
Work directly with customers to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and onboard scientific teams.
Engineer across the stack, from developing new LLM-powered primitives to shipping intuitive user interfaces inside Benchling’s applications.
Continuously improve our agent platform, contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate future agent development.
Shape how we build AI at Benchling, driving experimentation, contributing to technical direction, and helping evolve our engineering and product development practices as the field matures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and maintaining production systems.
Experience across the stack, comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar languages) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
Strong product sense, with the ability to iterate quickly and refine solutions based on user feedback and data.
Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents, and a desire to shape how they can transform scientific research.
Collaborative mindset, able to work closely with engineers, product managers, and scientists to bring new ideas to life.
Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, where priorities can shift and rapid experimentation is encouraged.
Interest in learning about biotechnology (no prior knowledge required, just a willingness to learn and adapt).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringPythonReactLLM-powered primitivesdata analysisexperiment designproduction systemsuser interface developmentbackend systemsfrontend frameworks

Soft Skills

product sensecollaborative mindsetcuriosityadaptabilitycommunicationiterationfeedback gatheringexperimentationproblem-solvingteamwork