benchling - Agentic AI Engineer
Requirements
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with strong systems design fundamentals. • Hands-on experience building production systems that integrate with LLMs and/or agentic patterns: orchestration, tool use, memory and state management, evaluation, and observability. • Demonstrated understanding of how to optimize workloads across deterministic and non-deterministic capabilities, striking the right architectural balance for the needs of the specific solution being implemented. • Production experience with at least two of: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go; comfort with working across the stack. • Hands-on expertise with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI), RAG over business content (Confluence, contracts, policies), vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), workflow automation (n8n, Langflow), and LLM observability and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, Arize). • Track record of going from zero to one: a platform, function, or product area you built up from scratch and scaled. • Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments. Solid grasp of enterprise security fundamentals — encryption, access controls, audit logging, secrets management. • Comfortable exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority. You set direction, raise the bar in design reviews, and grow other engineers through influence. • Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real-world impact of your work. • Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of platforms. • Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. You can translate department workflows into engineering plans, and engineering tradeoffs into business language. • Interest in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required). • Background in enterprise SaaS, life sciences, or biotech. • Familiarity with LLM orchestration patterns and frameworks (LangGraph, MCP, agent SDKs from major model providers). • Experience with async orchestration (Temporal, Prefect, Airflow) applied to long-running or agentic workflows. • Familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, or GxP compliance as they apply to AI systems. • Experience building internal developer platforms or internal tools at scale. • Direct experience coaching or enabling non-engineers (analysts, ops staff, business power users) to build with AI tooling. • Benchling welcomes everyone. • We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
Responsibilities
• Check out our engineering blog for examples of past work across Benchling. • Shape technical direction and architecture: Define the foundational architecture for enterprise agentic AI at Benchling — orchestration, agent frameworks, tool integrations (including MCP), memory and state management, evaluation, and observability. Make clear build vs. buy decisions across the stack with documented rationale. • Build and ship the early portfolio yourself: Write production code at least half your time, particularly during the team's first year. Stand up the CI/CD, testing, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for agentic systems — leveraging existing patterns from Benchling's Build organization wherever possible. Graduate prototypes from the AI Product Manager's discovery cycles into hardened, production-grade systems and own production support under a "you build it, you run it" model. • Design for enterprise from day one: Build for multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, payload encryption, role-based access controls, and human-in-the-loop controls calibrated to risk. Partner with Security Engineering on threat modeling for agentic architectures — prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration vectors. • Enable builders across the company: Coach power users and departmental teams on production patterns, develop the criteria that decide which prototypes graduate into enterprise-grade systems, and build the internal-facing developer experience — templates, SDKs, sandboxes — that lets builders outside this team ship safely. • Partner across functions: Work closely with our Data, Analytics & Systems team peers on the source-of-truth datasets and pipelines that agentic systems depend on. Engage with department leaders on the workflows we're transforming, and with Benchling's platform and infrastructure teams to leverage existing capabilities rather than build parallel systems. • Elevate engineering standards: Set the bar for code quality, testing and evaluation, documentation, and on-call practices. Drive technical hiring through interview loop design, bar-raising in interviews, and representing the team to senior candidates. Mentor engineers on the team and other AI builders across the company.
Benefits
• Zone 1$195K – $265K • Offers Equity • Zone 2$182K – $246K • Offers Equity • Zone 3$176K – $238K • Offers Equity • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more. • 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. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • They/Them/Theirs • Prefer not to answer • Benchling Privacy Policy (English) • Benchling Privacy Policy (German) • Benchling Privacy Policy (French) • Can work for any employer • Can work for current employer • Seeking work authorization • What AI tools are you currently using today and how are you using them? • Non-Binary, Non-Conforming • Decline to Self Identify • I am not a protected Veteran • I identify as one or more of the classifications of a protected veteran • I don't wish to answer • Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability • Form CC-305 Page 1 of 1 • OMB Control Number 1250-0005. Expires 04/30/2026 • Why are you being asked to complete this form? • We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years. • Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp. • How do you know if you have a disability? • A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to: • Disabilities include, but are not limited to: • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally) • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS • Blind or low vision • Cancer (past or present) • Cardiovascular or heart disease • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome • Intellectual or developmental disability • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS) • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause) • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema • Short stature (dwarfism) • Traumatic brain injury • Yes, I have a disability, or have had one in the past • No, I do not have a disability and have not had one in the past • I don't want to answer • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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