Software Engineer Intern, Benchling
Summer 2026 Internship
$60.00 USD per hour
4 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$60.00 USD per hour
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- Current enrollment in a BS/MS degree in computer science and/or STEM fields with an expected graduation date between Dec 2026 and Summer 2027
- A prior software engineering internship or similar experience
- Strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- A desire to have ownership over building key pieces of product and/or platform
Desirable
- Passion for learning about life science
What the job involves
- We're looking for Software Engineer interns to join our Summer 2026 intern class in San Francisco
- As an intern, you'll be entrusted with a significant degree of ownership to work on either platform and infrastructure or product and application teams
- You'll learn to design complex and highly scalable products and systems that will directly impact our customers or other Benchlings!
- You will own a project end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Design and implement backend models and API endpoints for complex scientific workflows
- Build and operate rich frontend components and visualizations
- Design and build a platform framework or infrastructure tool for other Benchling engineers to use
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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