Software Engineer - Data Engineer

You Will:

• Collaborate with Machine Learning, Full-stack engineers and Science to solve complex document mining challenges, helping us capture and model additional scientific experiments
• Scale data pipelines to allow our data to go from research to platform quickly and reliably
• Work with sources that contain both semi-structured and unstructured data
• Use your experience to help define and apply best practices for a broad platform of technologies in a cloud-based environment
• Architect and maintain robust data pipelines that ingest diverse sources and utilize LLMs for high-fidelity entity extraction into structured formats
• Implement evaluation frameworks to monitor the accuracy, drift, and hallucination rates of extraction models within the production pipeline.
• Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following the unified Platform Stream roadmap at BenchSci
• Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements
• Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects
• Respond with urgency and drive urgency in own team to operational issues, owning resolution within one's sphere of responsibility
• Challenge the status quo and propose newertechnologies or ways of working

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field within science
• 3+ years experience working as a software developerin the industry
• Proficient with Python
• Proficient with SQL
• Experience using LLMs for structured data extraction
• Experience with event-driven architecture with Pub/Sub
• A track record in building high-quality, maintainable code
• Experience with cloud computing (for example: GCP, Azure, AWS)

Nice To Have:

• ML/Data science exposure
• Worked with Auth0, Terraform
• Have experience with data warehouse solutions like BigQuery, and databases including AlloyDB and Spanner
• Have experience with agentic driven development and AI-based tools like Cursor or Claude Code
• Have experience with building ConversationalAI solutions