Biotech AI Solutions Architect: Cloud Integrations

Benchling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, seeks a Technical Solutions Architect to partner with customer developers and internal engineering teams to design and deliver scalable integration solutions that accelerate scientific progress.

You will scope end-user requirements, prototype cloud-based integrations on Benchling’s developer platform, and ensure successful delivery within complex IT ecosystems, traveling up to 10–20% as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of client-facing software implementation and/or consulting experience.
• Strong REST API and Python experience to build integration demos.
• Experience leading enterprise SaaS projects.
• Familiar with cloud software development processes and architectures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.
• Willingness to travel 10-20% to customer sites.

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.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

Technical leadership

Cloud software development

Education

B.S in a life sciences discipline or engineering/computer science

Tools

REST APIs

Python

Job description

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, seeks a Technical Solutions Architect to partner with customer developers and internal engineering teams to design and deliver scalable integration solutions that accelerate scientific progress.

You will scope end-user requirements, prototype cloud-based integrations on Benchling’s developer platform, and ensure successful delivery within complex IT ecosystems, traveling up to 10–20% as needed.