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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Admin Platform organization is one of the most critical engineering groups at Benchling. Every user login, every permission check, every rule that governs how scientific data is captured, and every tenant that gets provisioned and managed runs through systems this team owns. The mission of the organization is to keep Benchling secure, configurable, auditable, and operationally reliable, while giving the rest of engineering a strong foundation they can build on with confidence.
This role leads two teams. The Identity Platform team owns Benchling’s core authentication and authorization systems, permissions framework, identity management capabilities such as SSO, SAML, and service principals, as well as validation rules, notifications, and application configuration. The Tenant Lifecycle team owns how Benchling tenants are provisioned, configured, and managed across their full lifecycle. Together, these teams own core platform capabilities that every Benchling customer and every Benchling engineer depends on every day.
This role sits at the intersection of foundational platform ownership and forward-looking product development. In the near term, the organization is driving Delegated Auth to general availability: an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code flow that allows third-party applications and AI agents to act securely on behalf of users. This work is a key part of Benchling’s broader developer ecosystem and Model Context Protocol (MCP) strategy. Over time, the teams will continue to expand granular permissions, build folder-level access control, and evolve Benchling’s identity and tenant management architecture to meet the needs of increasingly complex and regulated enterprise environments.
This is a strong fit for an engineering leader who enjoys high-leverage platform work, can build credibility with senior engineers through real technical engagement, and can balance operational excellence with delivery of new capabilities. You will partner closely with security, product, and developer platform teams, and your work will directly shape how safely, reliably, and effectively both customers and internal teams use the Benchling platform.
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