Designs and integrates novel electromechanical and fluidic hardware for GutLab products. Responsibilities include prototype assembly, testing, troubleshooting, repair, test automation, fixture development, documentation, and quality support. The role requires hands-on hardware development, CAD-based design, wiring, soldering, scripting, and collaboration across disciplines to transition products from prototype toward production.
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Compensation: $100k – $150k salary + 0.1%– 0.25% equity + benefits
Full benefits, including health coverage, PTO & parental leave
About BiomeSense
BiomeSense is a life sciences startup applying gut microbiome technologies (GutLab, MetaBiome) to advance personalized medicine. We partner with UCSF, UCSD, NIH & the University of Chicago & are backed by LabCorp Ventures, Bluestein Ventures, Seerave Foundation & Emil Capital Partners.
Key Responsibilities
You will own key technical workstreams responsible for the success of our next-generation GutLab hardware, while providing hands-on support.
Compensation: $100k – $150k salary + 0.1%– 0.25% equity + benefits
Full benefits, including health coverage, PTO & parental leave
About BiomeSense
BiomeSense is a life sciences startup applying gut microbiome technologies (GutLab, MetaBiome) to advance personalized medicine. We partner with UCSF, UCSD, NIH & the University of Chicago & are backed by LabCorp Ventures, Bluestein Ventures, Seerave Foundation & Emil Capital Partners.
Key Responsibilities
You will own key technical workstreams responsible for the success of our next-generation GutLab hardware, while providing hands-on support.
- Mechanical Design of Novel Hardware: Devise elegant solutions to complex mechanical design problems, balancing performance, risk, and timelines
- Systems Integration: Integrate mechanical, electrical, and fluidic systems into robust products; resolve system-level tradeoffs
- Hardware Build & Test: Perform detailed electrical, mechanical, and fluidic assembly of prototypes and sub-assemblies; lead hands-on validation of new designs
- Troubleshooting & Repair: Diagnose and repair complex hardware, software, and firmware issues in lab and field; identify root causes and drive fixes
- Testing & Automation: Design and improve test setups, fixtures, and automation to optimize assembly and validate hardware; maintain a clean, organized, inventoried hardware lab
- Documentation & Quality: Create clear SOPs, manuals, test records, and design documentation for repeatable production; flag risks and assembly feedback early
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field and 5+ years in hardware development
- Experience independently designing complex, novel hardware and test fixtures using CAD
- Proven ability and willingness to perform precise, hands-on assembly and testing of complex electromechanical hardware
- Experience with prototyping techniques (e.g., 3D printing, light machining)
- Proven ability to perform detailed wiring, harnessing, and soldering
- Highly organized, proactive, and independent; owns ambiguous work through resolution and collaborates across disciplines
- Experience with instrument control software and scripting; able to interpret test results and translate findings into design improvements
- Experience taking a new product from prototype to production
- Expertise in Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturing
BiomeSense, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States
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