Software Engineer, Model Evaluation and Improvement

Required

• 2+ years at the intersection of biology and AI, with experience evaluating and improving scientific models or LLMs for biological applications.
• Experience building with LLMs, with an intuition for where current models excel, where they struggle, and how to design systems around their capabilities.
• Curiosity and excitement about frontier AI, with a desire to understand and push the capabilities of rapidly improving models.
• Comfort working on ambiguous problems, where the playing field is rapidly shifting and the right technical approaches are still being discovered.
• Collaborative mindset, able to work closely with engineers, scientists, and external research partners.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, where priorities can shift and rapid experimentation is encouraged.
• This is an in-person team in San Francisco built around collaborating in the office in a fast-paced environment. We’re in the office Monday through Friday.
• 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.