Software Engineer, New Grad (2026)

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&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. 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.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We’re hiring New Grad Software Engineers to join our 2026 class in San Francisco. As a new grad at Benchling, you’ll have real ownership from day one—building, scaling, and shaping the systems that power our platform and products. Depending on your interests and background, you’ll join either our platform and infrastructure teams (driving scalability, reliability, and performance) or our product and application teams (delivering high-impact features that advance the future of life sciences R&D). You’ll work alongside experienced engineers and technical leads who are passionate about mentorship and engineering excellence—helping you grow rapidly as you make meaningful contributions to a product used by scientists around the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with and learn from a strong team of engineers. We grow our new grads through mentorship and ownership.

• Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout. You might:

  • Design and implement backend models and API endpoints for complex scientific workflows.

  • Design and implement rich frontend components and architecture. We build and operate one of the largest, richest React applications out there and power complex scientific analyses.

  • Design and build a platform framework or infrastructure tool for other Benchling engineers to use.

• Work closely with product managers, designers, marketing, and sales to ensure that we’re building the right thing.

• Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.

Check out our engineering blog and product overview for some examples of past work and current projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

Must haves:

• Current enrollment in a BS/MS degree in computer science and/or STEM field with an expected graduation date of Summer 2026, and a target start date of Summer 2026.

• A prior software engineering internship or similar experience.

• Strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.

• A desire to have ownership over building key pieces of product and/or platform.

• A product-first approach to building software. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.

Nice to haves:

• Passion for learning about life science.

HOW WE WORK

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

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,