Prototyping Engineer
About Pilgrim:
Pilgrim is building America’s biology prime - engineering, manufacturing, and deploying advanced biotechnology for defense and national security. Our primary platform, ARGUS, is a fully autonomous system for detecting biological threats in near real time, from naturally occurring pathogens to engineered agents.
We engineer hardware for biology, turning breakthrough science into fielded capabilities. Based in Redwood City, our team brings together mechanical and electrical engineering, chemistry, and biology under one roof to deliver critical technologies to the people who need them.
About the Role:
As a Prototyping Engineer at Pilgrim, you’ll build, modify, and test the hardware behind our products. You’ll design parts and fixtures, fabricate components, assemble prototypes, and troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and fluidic problems. Working with engineers and scientists, you’ll turn test results into practical improvements and compress the timeline from idea to working prototype.
Responsibilities:
Own prototype builds and test fixtures, planning the work and identifying the parts, tools, and engineering input needed.
Design parts and assemblies in SolidWorks, translating sketches, measurements