management
Posted 2 weeks agoHead of Scientific Development Solutions Engineering
at Benchling
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- 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.
- We’re building an AI scientist for our customers.
- AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day.
- As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role.
- Benchling runs an agile process and each of these various aspects of the SDLC are all typically in flight in a continuous fashion.
- experience in software engineering and engineering management roles. - 5+ years overall
- Experience driving complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion, with multiple technical projects and products. -
- Experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end. - Track record of growing high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact. - Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools (e.g., Jira or other bug database), as well as observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting. - Interest in / curiosity about biotech! Prior
- experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education is not required, but is absolutely a plus.
Experience
- experience in SaaS or the broader high-tech commercial software sector. - 5+ years of engineering management experience, including 3+ years of indirectly managing other teams through subordinate engineering managers. -
Benefits
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
- Over 200,000 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.
- We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves.
- Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
- ROLE OVERVIEW The Scientific Development Solutions (SDS) Group is a family of engineering teams that deliver products and solutions to biologists centered on the conduct of complex lab operations; development, qualification, and execution of rigorous SOPs; analysis of complex time-series data; and biological and IT-driven workflows for sample management, analytical chemistry, and more.
- SDS solutions are frequently (but not exclusively) sought out by Benchling’s customers with GLP / GMP regulatory concerns.
- As the group lead for SDS engineering, you will be responsible for all software engineering work throughout our SDLC – specification, development, testing, deployment, and operational maintenance (SRE) work – for the Procedures, Studies, and Workflows products, split across two teams.
- You will work closely with senior engineering leadership, a group-level product management counterpart, as well as engineering leaders, PMs, and designers supporting teams within your group and across the organization.
- Group leads typically directly manage one engineering scrum themselves (i.e., 5–10 engineers), while additional teams within the group report to other managers who will report to you.
- In addition to the day-to-day management of the team and its execution, engineering group leads attend to more horizontal demands of the broader engineering organization and Benchling as a whole, such as setting and maintaining standards for engineering quality; running and improving our interviewing, hiring, and onboarding processes; and continuously improving our overall SDLC.