Software Engineer Developer Enablement

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 200000 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.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Enablement team you’ll play a pivotal role in building the platform that enables our ecosystem of scientific applications. You won’t just write code you’ll help shape how developers partners and scientists interact with Benchling’s products allowing them to create tools that directly support groundbreaking research. Your work will impact the way science gets done driving innovation and enabling seamless integration of third-party solutions across the platform.

The team is working on a wide range of early- and mid-stage initiatives—including developer APIs event delivery AI-powered agents and new platform infrastructure designed to support a growing ecosystem of scientific applications. Because of the diversity of our work engineers have the flexibility to take on projects that align with both business needs and their own interests and skills. This role was envisioned as a “Developer Platform Engineer” reflecting the breadth of opportunities to contribute across our developer-facing systems.

This is a hands-on high-impact role where your contributions will be visible across the company and to our scientific users worldwide. You’ll collaborate with product managers designers and engineers tackling complex challenges while growing your expertise in platform development and life sciences. 

• Take ownership of projects from ideation to delivery including prototyping building and scaling new software features.

• Design and implement robust APIs services and interfaces that integrate seamlessly with our growing ecosystem.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into scalable elegant software solutions.

• Influence the direction of our platform by bringing creative solutions and new ideas to the table.

Developer Interfaces & Platform APIs

• Design build and maintain external developer-facing APIs and SDKs that power extensibility in Benchling’s platform.

• Contribute to evolving and scaling our REST and GraphQL APIs ensuring consistency performance and usability for external and internal developers.

• Build and maintain delivery systems for real-time scientific data

Bonus: AI Agents & Model Context Protocol (MCP)

• Contribute to the development of APIs and interfaces that support AI-driven agents like Benchling’s Deep Research Agent and Data Entry Agent.

• Support the development of our Benchling MCP to enable AI agents to interact safely with Benchling’s data and APIs.

• Collaborate with our AI infra / agents teams to support the agentic ecosystem.

Bonus: APIs for ingesting/exporting large amounts of data

• Architect and implement high-throughput APIs designed specifically for bulk data ingestion and export capable of handling millions of records daily with minimal latency.

• Design scalable API specifications (REST or gRPC) that support complex filtering sparse fieldsets and cursor-based pagination to efficiently manage large payloads.

Check out our engineering blog for some examples of past work across Benchling.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong coding skills and engineering fundamentals – able to turn product requirements into well-architected maintainable and tested code

• Experience building scalable reliable systems with attention to performance and user impact

• Leadership in engineering practices – drives and upholds high standards in testing code quality reviews version control and team development workflows

• Proven ability to work across teams – partnering with product design and platform groups to ship cohesive solutions

• Strategic problem solving – tackles complex ambiguous technical challenges with a focus on long-term impact scalability and user value

• Comfortable pushing back thoughtfully – advocate for technical solutions that improve quality scalability and maintainability

• Experience mentoring others and contributing to team growth – through onboarding pairing and process improvement

• Clear and effective communicator especially in cross-functional settings

• Have a keen interest in delving deeper into building Enterprise SaaS in the life sciences industry. While prior knowledge isn’t a prerequisite an enthusiasm to learn certainly is!

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday Tuesday and Thursday).

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Benchling welcomes everyone.

We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities backgrounds and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable federal state and local law including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

What We Do

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it from the medicines we take to the crops we grow and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products. Help us bring modern software to modern science. We’re on Team Science We believe in the promise of science and the teamwork required to fulfill that promise. Whether your background is in science engineering business or another field you’re on Team Science if you believe in the power of science to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Why Work With Us

Everyday at Benchling you’re surrounded by talented people who are really excited about the work they’re doing and the impact they’re having. It’s truly uplifting to work on a product that you can believe in and to work alongside colleagues who are energized by the shared vision of a future with less disease and greater sustainability.

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