Software Engineer Intern, Benchling

Summer 2026 Internship

Salary not provided

$60.00 USD per hour

San Francisco Bay Area

4 days a week in office

Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D

Be an early applicant

Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D

501-1000 employees

B2BSaaSScienceBiotechnology

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

$60.00 USD per hour

San Francisco Bay Area

4 days a week in office

501-1000 employees

B2BSaaSScienceBiotechnology

Company mission

To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.

Job

Company

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. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Nov 2021

$100m

SERIES F

Apr 2021

$200m

SERIES E

Total funding: $411.2m

Company benefits

4 months paid parental leave
401k plan
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Flexible paid time off
Work from home opportunities
100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sajith Wickramasekara

(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

(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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