Head of Scientific Development Solutions Engineering

Benchling

Group lead for engineering in biotech AI platform development. Responsible for managing scrum teams and engineering processes ensuring software quality and stakeholder satisfaction.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $232,344 - $386,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum teams; up to one team may be directly reporting to you, with other teams reporting to other line managers in your organization
Translate strategy into execution by developing and executing quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets.
Define and execute on a software engineering roadmap across your teams that encompasses new product and new feature development, quality improvements for both internal and external stakeholders, and bugfixes and software maintenance activities. Work closely with Product Mgmt and Design counterparts to articulate an achievable roadmap that meets our customer needs.
Recruit, hire, and onboard exceptional full-stack engineers and engineering managers to staff your organization; mentor team members and act as a bar-raiser for talent.
Build a strong partnership with stakeholders across the engineering organization and other functions across the company.
Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements as part of the management team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10–15 years overall experience in software engineering and engineering management roles.
5+ years overall experience in SaaS or the broader high-tech commercial software sector.
5+ years of engineering management experience, including 3+ years of indirectly managing other teams through subordinate engineering managers.
Experience driving complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion, with multiple technical projects and products.
Experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end.
Track record of growing high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact.
Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools (e.g., Jira or other bug database), as well as observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting.
Interest in / curiosity about biotech! Prior experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education is not required, but is absolutely a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
health
dental
vision
401(k)+ employer match
wellness
commuter
more

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringengineering managementSaaScloud-based web applicationsfull-stack developmentroadmap executionbugfixessoftware maintenancequality improvementstechnical project management

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringstakeholder partnershipteam managementstrategic planningcommunicationorganizational improvementtalent acquisitioncollaborationexecution