Software Engineer, Benchling
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$194.4-265.4k
+ Equity
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5 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$194.4-265.4k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and maintaining production systems
- Experience across the stack, comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar languages) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent)
- Strong product sense, with the ability to iterate quickly and refine solutions based on user feedback and data
- Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents, and a desire to shape how they can transform scientific research
- Collaborative mindset, able to work closely with engineers, product managers, and scientists to bring new ideas to life
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, where priorities can shift and rapid experimentation is encouraged
- Interest in learning about biotechnology (no prior knowledge required, just a willingness to learn and adapt)
What the job involves
- We’re a team focusing on shipping AI agents for scientists, helping them automate toil and accelerate breakthroughs
- Our agents automate many parts of scientific work that take hours to weeks today: designing experiments, capturing data, analyzing data, and writing complex reports
- As an engineer on the team, you’ll build these agents end-to-end, from designing the agent architecture to shipping intuitive interfaces for the agents within our scientific applications
- It’s early days for AI agents, both at Benchling and in the industry at large
- We’ll rapidly iterate with customers and change directions quickly, figuring out new patterns for how we develop and go to market
- We’ll win if we stay curious and obsess over our customers
- Build end-to-end AI agents, prototyping and productionizing systems that automate scientific work, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting
- Work directly with customers to ideate use cases, gather feedback, build evaluations, and onboard scientific teams
- Engineer across the stack, from developing new LLM-powered primitives to shipping intuitive user interfaces inside Benchling’s applications
- Continuously improve our agent platform, contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate future agent development
- Shape how we build AI at Benchling, driving experimentation, contributing to technical direction, and helping evolve our engineering and product development practices as the field matures
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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