Benchling

Software Engineer, Full Stack (Process Execution)

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 71 days ago

PythonReactBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewAgentic AIAI Orchestration

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 the workflow engine, recipes, and assays - the core systems that Benchling customers depend on to run their operations.

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 workflow platform that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to design, execute, and track complex scientific manufacturing processes at scale.

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
5+ 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.

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.

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

This listing is sourced directly from Benchling's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.