AI Engineer

Benchling

Agentic AI Engineer responsible for architecting and developing AI systems at Benchling. Engaging in cross-functional collaboration to elevate engineering standards and drive production-grade systems.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $176,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoJavaScriptNode.jsPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the foundational architecture for enterprise agentic AI at Benchling.
Write production code at least half your time, particularly during the team's first year.
Build for multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, payload encryption, role-based access controls.
Coach power users and departmental teams on production patterns.
Work closely with our Data, Analytics & Systems team peers on the source-of-truth datasets and pipelines.
Set the bar for code quality, testing and evaluation, documentation, and on-call practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with strong systems design fundamentals.
Hands-on experience building production systems that integrate with LLMs and/or agentic patterns: orchestration, tool use, memory and state management, evaluation, and observability.
Demonstrated understanding of how to optimize workloads across deterministic and non-deterministic capabilities.
Production experience with at least two of: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go; comfort with working across the stack.
Hands-on expertise with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI), RAG over business content (Confluence, contracts, policies), vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), workflow automation (n8n, Langflow).
Track record of going from zero to one.
Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
Comfortable exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
health, dental, vision
401(k)+ employer match
wellness programs
commuter benefits
comprehensive benefits program

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsystems designproduction systemsPythonTypeScriptNode.jsGoLLM APIsagentic frameworksworkflow automation

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunication skillscoachingcollaboration