Benchling

Scientific & Lab Software
28open roles
$208kmedian advertised pay
$21.5Mraised in 2 rounds
14H-1B filings in 12 months

Overview

Benchling is a biotechnology software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2012. The company provides a cloud-based platform for research and development that includes tools for electronic lab notebooks, biological registration, inventory management, and workflow automation. Serving over 200,000 scientists across academic institutions, startups, and major biopharmaceutical firms, the platform integrates artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and data management globally.

How Benchling hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
58 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%

Benchling scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 58 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Jobs

Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · PhD · Zurich
AI Agents
Life Sciences
Antibody Engineering
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$154k – $208k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
AI Agents
Chips/EDA
JMP
Analytics
Tableau
Life Sciences
LIMS
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Zurich
AI Agents
Chips/EDA
JMP
Analytics
Tableau
Life Sciences
LIMS
Benchling
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$182k – $246k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Boston
AI Agents
Life Sciences
Benchling
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$136k – $167k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
AI Agents
Life Sciences
Benchling
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$93k – $136k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · San Francisco
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Life Sciences
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$119k – $150k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Master's Degree · San Francisco
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Life Sciences
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≈ $161k – $302k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · PhD · London · Zurich
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Life Sciences
LIMS
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$195k – $265k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Go
TypeScript
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
DevOps
Terraform
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
SLI/SLO/SLA
Amazon S3
IAM
Cybersecurity
HashiCorp Vault
PKI
Life Sciences
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$119k – $175k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · PhD · Tarrytown · New York · Philadelphia · Hartford · Princeton
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Life Sciences
LIMS
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$196k – $265k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Boston
SQL
Cursor
AI Agents
Life Sciences
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$93k – $126k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Boston
Python
SQL
AI Agents
Management
Jira
Life Sciences
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$208k
Typical range
$90k – $366k
Open positions
37
32 Jobs
Junior 12.5%
Middle 21.9%
Senior 21.9%
Staff 28.1%
Architect 15.6%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $131k $105k – $150k
Middle 7 $207k $149k – $265k
Senior 7 $250k $180k – $307k
Staff 9 $255k $150k – $307k
Architect 5 $254k $208k – $366k
Highest paying role Head of Enterprise Applications $366k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Benchling By role, level and city, against the market · 37 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

#1,304 of 8,998 sponsors
14 ▲ 17%
H-1B filings in 12 months
2
Green card filings
$157k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
7
Sales engineers
2
Data scientists
1
4 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Benchling, Inc., San Francisco, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 1, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
50
12 opened / 19 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
56 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics +500%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
18% ▲
Sales
17% ▲
Backend
11%
Customer Success
11% ▼
Product
6% ▼
Marketing
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Solutions (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Cambridge Nov 2026
Added Terraform to stack Oct 2026
Added PKI to stack Oct 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Oct 2026
Added GitOps to stack Oct 2026
Added AWS Bedrock to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon EKS to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon EC2 to stack Oct 2026
Added GMP to stack Oct 2026
Added GLP to stack Oct 2026
Added JMP to stack Oct 2026

Financials

Total raised
$21.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $14.5M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $7M Details

People

Sajith Wickramasekara
Executive Officer, Director
Ashutosh Singhal
Director
Miles Grimshaw
Director
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Benchling over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
81
Postings analysed
107
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python22%
JavaScript14%
SQL9%
Go5%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
CrewAI2%
LangChain2%
pgvector2%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
Snowflake4%
Pinecone2%
Salesforce Data Cloud1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS10%
Tableau6%
Looker3%
Prefect3%
AI & ML
LLM11%
Claude4%
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Connections

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Shared investors5
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Spark CapitalVia a fund
43 portfolio companies: Air Space Intelligence, Inversion, Mirror and 40 more
78 portfolio companies: Yousign, Qualia, Microsoft and 75 more
SV AngelVia a fund
144 portfolio companies: Zapier, Temporal, Zip and 141 more
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News

News benchling.com 3 months ago
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News benchling.com 10 months ago
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Press release PRNewswire 1 year ago
Introducing Benchling AI
/PRNewswire/ -- Benchling AI launches today, giving scientists a command center to access AI directly in the platform they trust. At a time where AI is...
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News benchling.com 1 year ago
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Benchling and Moderna Collaborate on AI-Driven Research
Benchling, the R&D platform powering the biotech industry, today announced an expanded collaboration with Moderna. What began with Benchling supporting Moderna
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News Investment U 4 years ago
Benchling IPO: Latest Updates on Benchling Stock
Investors are eager for the Benchling IPO. The company made headlines when it confidentially filed with the SEC to go public.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
9
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
27 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 26% engineering 4% remote 50-200 est. staff $227k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Backend, Sales
seen since Nov 2025 job postings
Boston United States
Support & operations
12 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 50-200 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions, Support, Backend
seen since May 2026 job postings
Zurich Switzerland
Sales office
8 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions, Sales, Leadership
seen since May 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Remote hub
6 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 83% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Leadership, Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Tarrytown United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026
New York United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Philadelphia United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026
Hartford United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026
Princeton United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026