Founding Agentic AI Engineer — LLM Orchestration

Grapevine Round1 AI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchling, San Francisco, seeks a founding engineer for the Intelligence Engineering & Enablement team to build agentic AI systems for the R&D cloud. You will define the foundational architecture for enterprise AI, focusing on orchestration, memory management, and production-grade reliability.

The role requires heavy hands-on coding while acting as a player-coach to drive technical strategy and standards. Candidates must have deep experience with production systems and modern AI/LLM frameworks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic patterns.
• Production experience with Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Expertise with LLM APIs and agentic frameworks.
• Experience with RAG and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Architect foundational AI system for enterprise use.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Hands-on with LLMs

Production experience

Python

TypeScript

Go

Agentic frameworks

RAG & vector databases

Tools

LangChain

LangFlow

LangSmith

LangGraph

Temporal

Airflow

Pinecone

Pgvector

Vector databases

Job description

Benchling, San Francisco, seeks a founding engineer for the Intelligence Engineering & Enablement team to build agentic AI systems for the R&D cloud. You will define the foundational architecture for enterprise AI, focusing on orchestration, memory management, and production-grade reliability.

The role requires heavy hands-on coding while acting as a player-coach to drive technical strategy and standards. Candidates must have deep experience with production systems and modern AI/LLM frameworks.