Legal Counsel, Product and AI

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.

We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

We are looking for a mission-driven, technically fluent, and highly motivated attorney to join our legal team as Product and AI Counsel.

In this role, you will serve as an integrated, “full-stack” product counsel – a trusted legal partner embedded with Benchling’s product and engineering teams, supporting and helping to execute the legal strategy for our AI-powered products and core platform features across their entire lifecycle, reporting to the head of the Product, AI, and Security Legal function. You will provide end-to-end legal guidance spanning intellectual property, data privacy, AI governance, technology licensing, and commercial terms – synthesizing risk across domains rather than working in silos. This is a unique opportunity for a pragmatic, business-oriented attorney who is deeply fluent in technology (including in their own use of AI tools) and who thrives at the intersection of product development, strategic partnerships, and customer enablement. We welcome experienced product counsel as well as tech transactions attorneys who have developed broad, integrated legal skills through the demands of complex technology deals.

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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.