Technical Solution Architect

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

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).

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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 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.