Software Engineer, New Grad (2026)

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.

Benchlings mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The worlds most innovative biotech companies use Benchlings R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.

Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Were hiring New Grad Software Engineers to join our 2026 class in San Francisco. As a new grad at Benchling youll have real ownership from day onebuilding scaling and shaping the systems that power our platform and products. Depending on your interests and background youll 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). Youll work alongside experienced engineers and technical leads who are passionate about mentorship and engineering excellencehelping 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 were building the right thing.
• Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team youll 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

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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).

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications interview performance and work location. For this role the base salary range is $ 144000.

Total Compensation includes the following :

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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 dont 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.

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Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1