Benchling

Biotech

HeadofScientificDevelopmentSolutionsEngineering

$232–386k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Head of Scientific Development Solutions Engineering at Benchling. Skills: Engineering Management, Roadmap Execution, Cloud-based Web Applications. Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum. Translate strategy into execution”

What You'll Achieve.

Compress decades of R&D work into years; Build clean, structured scientific data and AI into how science gets done; Deliver products and solutions to biologists; Achieve clear metrics and targets; Meet customer needs

Industry & Context.

Biotech
Problems you'll solve

Analyze complex time-series and biological and IT-driven workflows

Eligibility Requirements

On-site 3 days per week

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10–15 years overall experience in software engineering and engineering management roles, 5+ years overall experience in SaaS or the broader high-tech commercial software sector, 5+ years of engineering management experience, 3+ years of indirectly managing other teams through subordinate engineering managers, Experience driving complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion, Experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools, Familiarity with observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting

Nice to Have

Prior experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education

What You'll Do.

Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum

Translate strategy into execution

Develop and execute quarterly plans

Define and execute software engineering roadmap

and onboard engineers

Act as a bar-raiser for talent

Build partnership with stakeholders

Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with senior engineering leadership; Work closely with group-level product management counterpart; Work closely with engineering leaders, PMs, and designers; Build partnership with stakeholders across engineering organization and other functions

Process & Methodology

Develop and execute quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets, Define and execute on a software engineering roadmap, Drive complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion

Full Job Description

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. 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. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma. We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today. ROLE OVERVIEW  The Scientific Development Solutions (SDS) Group is a family of engineering teams that deliver products and solutions to biologists centered on the conduct of complex lab operations; development, qualification, and execution of rigorous SOPs; analysis of complex time-series data; and biological and IT-driven workflows for sample management, analytical chemistry, and more. SDS solutions are frequently (but not exclusively) sought out by Benchling’s customers with GLP / GMP regulatory concerns. As the group lead for SDS engineering, you will be responsible for all software engineering work throughout our SDLC – specification, development, testing, deployment, and operational maintenance (SRE) work – f

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