Software Engineer, Agents

The role

You will build end-to-end AI agents to automate scientific work. This includes designing agent architecture and shipping intuitive interfaces within scientific applications.

What you will do

• Build end-to-end AI agents, prototyping and productionizing systems that automate scientific work
• 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
• Continuously improve the agent platform, contributing to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure
• Shape how Benchling builds AI, driving experimentation and contributing to technical direction

Required 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)
• Comfort working with modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent)
• Strong product sense
• Curiosity and excitement about LLMs and AI agents
• Collaborative mindset
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

• Interest in learning about biotechnology

Before you apply

• You'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion as part of the interview process

About the company

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.