Agentic AI Engineer

About this role

Benchling seeks a founding Agentic AI Engineer to design and build production-grade agentic AI systems that power the company's R&D platform. You'll own the technical architecture, build reliable systems on modern foundation models, and enable teams across the organization to leverage AI workflows at scale.

What you'll do

• Define foundational architecture for enterprise agentic AI including orchestration, frameworks, tool integrations, and observability
• Write and ship production code for agentic systems at least 50% of the time, building CI/CD and evaluation infrastructure
• Design systems with enterprise security controls: multi-tenant isolation, audit logging, RBAC, and human-in-the-loop safeguards
• Graduate prototypes from discovery into hardened production systems and own operational support
• Coach internal teams and power users on production patterns and best practices for agentic AI
• Lead technical hiring and ideation for the founding AI systems team

What they're looking for

• Production systems engineering with modern foundation models
• Agentic AI architecture and orchestration frameworks
• Enterprise security and multi-tenant system design
• CI/CD, testing, and observability for AI systems
• Python or systems programming languages
• API integration and tool orchestration
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment patterns

Benefits

• Remote work, US-based
• Founding engineer role with significant technical autonomy
• Hands-on engineering culture with 50%+ coding responsibility
• Partnership with AI Product Manager and cross-functional teams
• Opportunity to shape AI systems strategy at scale