Benchling

biotech

SoftwareEngineer,FullStack(ProcessExecution)

San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Full Stack (Process Execution) at Benchling. Skills: full-stack development, workflow engine, recipes, assays, AI-assisted development. Build and maintain core features across the workflow engine, recipes, and assays — full-stack across backend services and frontend product surfaces. Contribute to the data layer modeling that underpins workflow graph structures and task execution tracking”

Industry & Context.

biotech
Eligibility Requirements

Engage with on-call rotation (approximately 1.5 weeks per person per quarter), Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday)

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, Full-stack experience — comfort working across backend (Python or similar) and frontend (React or equivalent), product sense with the ability to iterate based on user feedback and evolving requirements, 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

Nice to Have

Interest in learning about life sciences — prior biotech knowledge not required, but genuine curiosity is.

What You'll Do.

Build and maintain core features across the workflow engine

and assays — full-stack across backend services and frontend product surfaces

Contribute to the data layer modeling that underpins workflow graph structures and task execution tracking

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

Write well-documented

well-tested code and participate actively in code review

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

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

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate cross-functionally with the AI Agents team; work closely with engineers, PMs, and cross-functional partners across a complex codebase; Partner with product management and design

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 Process Development team builds the workflow platform that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to design, execute, and track complex scientific manufacturing processes at scale. 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. You'll build features that show up directly in how scientists manage manu

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