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# Technical Solution Architect at Benchling

- **Company:** Benchling
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/65d30858-1165-4c3f-8ba1-38489fa2e63f

## Job description

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.

We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. 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. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

We’re looking for a Technical Solutions Architect with expertise across life sciences R&D and complex software systems, working as the key technical partner to both customer and internal engineering teams to design and deliver impactful solutions that drive scientific progress.

In this role, you will work with customer developers and IT leaders, using your extensive knowledge of Benchling, modern SaaS technologies, and complex scientific processes to ensure successful integration of Benchling within complex IT ecosystems. You will be responsible for scoping end user requirements, designing solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of custom automation and integration solutions for Benchling users.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead technical consulting engagements with IT professionals at the cutting edge of biotechnology to understand their IT landscape (e.g., scientific/informatics software and instruments) and recommend how best Benchling can enable their informatics vision.
- Design, prototype, and oversee the delivery of cloud-based integrations and automations on top of Benchling’s developer platform.
- Engage cross-functionally with product and engineering to communicate customer feedback, and align proposed solutions with Benchling roadmap and feature availability.
- Collaborate with project and implementation managers to enable complex rollouts at large enterprise customers, proactively identifying technical risks and product gaps and designing solutions around them.
- Build and deliver convincing demos or POCs during initial stages of implementation projects to ensure stakeholder alignment, on proposed solutions.
- Leverage industry and project experience to contribute to Benchling’s technical documentation, and developer platform product roadmap.

## QUALIFICATIONS

- B.S in a life sciences discipline or engineering/computer science
- 5+ years of client-facing software implementation and/or consulting experience, with demonstrated success managing enterprise-scale SaaS projects.
- Comfortable using REST APIs and Python to design and build integration demos, and write and share example code with customer Developers.
- Demonstrated success in technical leadership and conceptual modeling to turn complex and abstract concepts into technical assets.
- Familiar with modern cloud software development processes, tools, and architectures.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present complex technical solutions clearly to diverse audiences and work effectively across internal teams.
- Ability to travel to customer sites up to 10-20% based on customer and project needs.

## 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).

#LI-Hybrid #BI-Hybrid 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.

## About Benchling

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Benchling provides a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development, uniting data, automation, and AI to accelerate scientific discovery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Sajith Wickramasekara, Ashu Singhal

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences Software, Biotechnology R&D, Scientific Cloud Computing
- **Target customers**: B2B; biopharma companies (including more than half of the world's top 50), academic labs, agritech, and industrial biotech organizations.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To unlock the power of biotechnology" by helping scientists unite data, automation, and AI to bring new products and discoveries to life faster.

## Products & Services
- **Benchling Platform (R&D Cloud)**: A unified, cloud-based platform for biotech R&D. It includes an electronic lab notebook (ELN), laboratory information management system (LIMS), and scientific data management. It allows teams to plan, record, and share experiments, automate workflows, and use AI tools.
- **Benchling AI**: An integrated AI layer that includes "The AI Scientist," which connects predictive models, structured data, and wet lab execution into a single loop. It designs experiments, routes lab automation, captures results, and recommends next steps.
- **Developer Platform**: An open, flexible platform with APIs, app integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing organizations to build custom apps and connect data from instruments and other software.
- **Services & Support**: Implementation, advisory, and support services from a team of experts. Also offers "Benchling Learning Labs" for team training and certification.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported valuation was $6.1 billion in 2021 after a Series F round).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$412M** across 8 rounds. Annual revenue is estimated at **$50M** (per LinkedIn).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Y Combinator, and others. Customers include Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 200,000 scientists use the platform; trusted by 1,300+ organizations; 642 employees with 2.2% YoY headcount growth; active job postings (49 open roles); LinkedIn follower growth of 28.4% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for biology**: Unlike generic software, Benchling is built specifically for complex life sciences R&D, modeling data for biomolecules, cell lines, and more.
- **AI-native platform**: AI is embedded at every step, with "The AI Scientist" closing the loop between experiment design, execution, and data capture.
- **Network effects**: Over 200,000 scientists and 1,300+ organizations use the platform, creating a strong ecosystem and data network effect.
- **Deep industry penetration**: Trusted by more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies, providing a strong moat against competitors.
- **Open and flexible**: Offers APIs, integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing it to adapt to diverse scientific workflows.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first R&D**: Deeply integrating AI agents and models into the scientific workflow to compress decades of R&D into years.
- **Platform expansion**: Continuing to build out the "AI Scientist" capability and expanding the developer platform for custom applications.
- **Customer growth**: Deepening relationships with existing enterprise customers (top 50 biopharma) while expanding into adjacent fields like agritech and industrial biotech.
- **International presence**: Operating in 15 countries, including Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, and Canada, with continued global expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to accelerating breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and materials science.
- **Culture of curiosity**: The company emphasizes a growth mindset, continuous learning, and treating mistakes as opportunities to reflect and grow.
- **Strong benefits**: Includes dedicated mental health benefits (therapy sessions), monthly wellness stipend, winter holiday shutdown, and active employee resource groups (ERGs) with executive sponsorship.
- **Community and connection**: Regular social hours, themed all-hands meetings, cross-functional events, and a strong emphasis on building community both in-person and virtually.
- **Hybrid/Office policy**: Has offices in multiple locations (San Francisco, and international offices in Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, Canada) with in-person social hours and team events.
- **Engineering culture**: Nearly half the team comes from an R&D background, blending scientific and technological expertise. Open roles include Software Engineer (Agents, Developer Platform), Engineering Leader (Molecular Biology, Infrastructure), and more.

## Sources
1. [benchling.com](https://www.benchling.com/)
2. [benchling.com/about-us](https://www.benchling.com/about-us)
3. [benchling.com/careers](https://www.benchling.com/careers)
4. [benchling.com/life-at-benchling](https://www.benchling.com/life-at-benchling)
5. [linkedin.com/company/benchling](https://www.linkedin.com/company/benchling)

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