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Benchling

Software Engineer, Full Stack (Process Execution)

San Francisco, CA · Mid

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PythonReactBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLAgentic AIAI OrchestrationUI DesignFDA RegulatoryGxP

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About the role

  • Our workflow engine is the foundational layer - a system that lets scientists and operators model their processes as structured workflows and then execute them reliably, whether one person is doing everything or an entire team is coordinating across steps.
  • As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll work full-stack across Workflows, Recipes, and Assays - the core products that Benchling customers depend on to run their operations.
  • Our goal is to empower biotechs (from startups to multi-nationals) to speedup development and manufacturing of life-saving treatments (the D in R&D).

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core features across the workflow engine, recipes, and assays - full-stack across backend services and frontend product surfaces
  • Build products on top of the workflow orchestration engine for industry standard processes
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the AI Agents team to expose both the workflow engine and products built on top to enable AI-assisted scientific work
  • Engage with on-call rotation (approximately 1.5 weeks per person per quarter) to support a customer-facing product used continuously by life science teams
  • Partner with product management and design to translate complex scientific workflow needs into intuitive, reliable software
  • The Process Development team builds the platform that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to design, execute, and manage complex scientific manufacturing processes at scale.

Requirements

  • Full-stack experience - comfort working across backend (Python or similar) and frontend (React or equivalent)
  • Strong product sense with the ability to iterate based on user feedback and evolving requirements
  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems
  • Collaborative mindset - able to work closely with engineers, PMs, and cross-functional partners across a complex codebase
  • Willingness to engage with AI-assisted development tools (Cloud agents, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) as a primary mode of working
  • Interest in learning about life sciences - prior biotech knowledge not required, but genuine curiosity is.
  • Willing to work onsite in our San Francisco office three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)

Nice to have

  • Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, or similar data-flow platforms
  • Familiarity with regulated software environments (GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, or similar)
  • Background in React, Python and PostgreSQL
  • Experience working in enterprise B2B SaaS serving large, complex organizations
  • Benchling welcomes everyone.
  • We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
  • 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.

Skills

  • 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.
  • Our foundation is our orchestration platform that allows complex physical processes to be mapped to their digital twins.
  • The work is high-stakes and high-impact:

Company info

  • We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
  • These are mission critical workflows that our customers (and their customers!) rely on every day, often in regulated manufacturing environments where correctness is non-negotiable.
  • On top of the platform, the team builds opinionated products to help customers optimize their physical process execution.
  • Embrace AI-assisted development practices - this team expects engineers to work alongside and in parallel with agents as a core part of the development workflow
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