Remote Agentic AI Engineer

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.

AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R 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. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

ROLE OVERVIEW Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology.

The world's most innovative biotech companies use Benchling's R cross-functional and company-wide agentic AI applications that span departmental boundaries; and the source-of-truth datasets, pipelines, and analytics that all of the above depend on, in partnership with our Data, Analytics 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). NICE TO HAVE 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. #LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-CG1 Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer.

That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.