Software Engineer, New Grad (2026)
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About this role
ROLE OVERVIEW
We’re hiring New Grad Software Engineers to join our 2026 class in San Francisco. As a new grad at Benchling, you’ll have real ownership from day one—building, scaling, and shaping the systems that power our platform and products. Depending on your interests and background, you’ll 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). You’ll work alongside experienced engineers and technical leads who are passionate about mentorship and engineering excellence—helping 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 we’re building the right thing.
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.
Check out our engineering blog (https://benchling.engineering/) and product overview (https://www.benchling.com/product-overview) for some examples of past work and current projects.
QUALIFICATIONS
Must haves:
- Current enrollment in a BS/MS degree in computer science and/or STEM field with an expected graduation date of Summer 2026, and a target start date of Summer 2026.
- A prior software engineering internship or similar experience.
- Strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
- A desire to have ownership over building key pieces of product and/or platform.
- A product-first approach to building software. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
Nice to haves:
- Passion for learning about life science.