# Software Engineer, Agents

**Company:** [Benchling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/benchling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $259k – $351k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Python, React, LLMs, AI Agents, Backend Development, Frontend Development
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Build and ship end-to-end AI agents that automate scientific workflows in biotech R&D, from experiment design to data analysis and reporting. Requires full-stack experience (Python/React), strong product sense, and excitement about using LLMs to accelerate breakthroughs.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and maintaining production systems.
- Experience across the stack, comfort working with backend systems (Python or similar languages) and modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent).
- 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).

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