Senior Software Engineer, Lab Informatics

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer, Lab Informatics will play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and evolving the digital laboratory platform for a leading nonprofit research institute. This position will focus on leveraging Benchling as a core component to support scientific discovery and collaboration. The role involves partnering with scientists, automation engineers, and data teams to translate complex scientific workflows into scalable and reliable digital solutions. The engineer will contribute to Benchling configuration, scientific data modeling, application and integration development, laboratory automation, analytics, and platform architecture. This position ensures that scientific data is structured, traceable, accessible, and reusable while establishing strong software engineering practices.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists and cross-functional teams to understand experimental workflows and translate scientific needs into technical solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain the Benchling environment, including schemas, Registry entities, Results, Inventory, workflows, notebook templates, and applications.
• Develop production-quality applications and integrations using Benchling Developer Platform tools such as APIs, SDKs, Apps, App Canvas, and webhooks.
• Design and maintain scalable scientific data models to ensure data integrity, traceability, and long-term reuse.
• Build scientific analytics, dashboards, and data applications using Benchling Insights, SQL, Python, and visualization frameworks.
• Integrate Benchling with laboratory instruments, automation platforms, internal applications, and external scientific software.
• Implement workflows for reliable transfer of experimental data between laboratory automation systems and Benchling.
• Establish and follow software engineering best practices, including source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and maintainable software architecture.
• Ensure consistent implementation of data standards and maintain high levels of data quality and integrity.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for Benchling, advising on platform architecture, data modeling, integrations, and development best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, application, and integration issues, identifying root causes and implementing scalable solutions.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for laboratory informatics and evaluate new technologies to improve scientific productivity.
• Develop technical documentation, user guidance, and training materials to support adoption of laboratory informatics tools.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, and mentorship of engineers and technical colleagues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Software Engineering, Computational Biology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering or scientific informatics experience.
• Hands-on experience with Benchling platform development, including Apps, App Canvas, APIs/SDK, Events, Insights, and Data Warehouse.
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.
• Experience developing production-quality applications, APIs, and system integrations.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication/authorization, and structured data models.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of life-science R&D workflows and scientific data.
• Proven ability to translate complex scientific workflows into scalable software solutions and data models.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with scientists and technical stakeholders.
• Experience configuring Benchling Registry, Inventory, Results, schemas, workflows, and notebook templates.
• Experience integrating laboratory instruments or automation systems with informatics platforms.
• Experience building scientific dashboards or analytics applications with tools like Plotly/Dash, Streamlit, Tableau, or Spotfire.
• Background in biologics, antibody discovery, protein science, molecular biology, or related life-science R&D.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized application development.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K contributions
• PTO
• Sick leave
• Other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities

Pay

Pay Range: $130,000 - $160,000. The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor