Hiring: Software Engineer, Agents Company: Benchling Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:48:46 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, Python, R, React About the job Experience: •3+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and maintaining production systems. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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). •This is an in-person team in San Francisco built around collaborating in the office in a fast-paced environment. We’re in the office Monday through Friday. •We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Compensation: •$194,369 - $265,388 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!