Software Engineer, Developer Enablement

San Francisco, United StatesHybrid

Responsibilities

Developer Interfaces & Platform APIs - Design, build, and maintain external developer-facing APIs and SDKs that power extensibility in Benchling’s platform.

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.
The team is working on a wide range of early- and mid-stage initiatives—including developer APIs, event delivery, AI-powered agents, and new platform infrastructure designed to support a growing ecosystem of scientific applications.
- Support the development of our Benchling MCP to enable AI agents to interact safely with Benchling’s data and APIs.
- Collaborate with our AI infra / agents teams to support the agentic ecosystem.

- Build and maintain delivery systems for real-time scientific data Bonus: AI Agents & Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Contribute to the development of APIs and interfaces that support AI-driven agents like Benchling’s Deep Research Agent and Data Entry Agent.
Bonus: APIs for ingesting/exporting large amounts of data - Architect and implement high-throughput APIs designed specifically for bulk data ingestion and export, capable of handling millions of records daily with minimal latency. - Design scalable API specifications (REST or gRPC) that support complex filtering, sparse fieldsets, and cursor-based pagination to efficiently manage large payloads.
We are an equal opportunity employer.

Check out our engineering blog https://benchling.engineering/ for some examples of past work across Benchling.

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 At Benchling, our mission is to empower scientists to accelerate discoveries that change the world.
You won’t just write code, you’ll help shape how developers, partners, and scientists interact with Benchling’s products, allowing them to create tools that directly support groundbreaking research.
Your work will impact the way science gets done, driving innovation and enabling seamless integration of third-party solutions across the platform.
Because of the diversity of our work, engineers have the flexibility to take on projects that align with both business needs and their own interests and skills.
This role was envisioned as a “Developer Platform Engineer,” reflecting the breadth of opportunities to contribute across our developer-facing systems.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your contributions will be visible across the company and to our scientific users worldwide.