ROLE OVERVIEW

We’re a team that’s embedding cutting-edge scientific AI models into Benchling to help scientists design better molecules. Scientific models (e.g. AlphaFold) predict structures, assess properties, and even generate new ideas, acting as a design partner as scientists design life-saving therapeutics and other molecules. As an engineer on the team, you’ll build these models into Benchling end-to-end, from experimenting with the latest models to designing our inference architecture to shipping intuitive interfaces within our scientific applications. It’s early days for scientific AI models, 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement new scientific models end-to-end, from experimenting with new models to integrating them into our infrastructure and user-facing products.
• Engineer across the stack, from building scalable inference services to creating intuitive interfaces that bring predictions directly into scientific workflows.
• Work directly with customers to ideate use cases, gather feedback, and onboard scientific teams.
• 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

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ 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 ideally also modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
• Strong product and technical skills, with the ability to design efficient, scalable systems while iterating quickly based on user feedback and data.
• 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 or ideally prior experience working with scientific AI models.

HOW WE WORK

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).

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $165,113 to $223, 388.

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

#LI-Hybrid

#BI-Hybrid

#LI-JP1