Systems Integration Engineer

Pilgrim • Redwood City, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Systems Integration Engineer/Scientist at Pilgrim, you’ll turn biological methods into automated workflows on ARGUS. You’ll adapt sample preparation, reagent handling, qPCR, and sequencing preparation to the system, troubleshooting failures across biology, fluidics, and controls. Working with scientists and engineers, you will translate scientific advances into integrated systems that perform reliably in the real world.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in bioengineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, or a related field.
• Experience adapting laboratory protocols to automated instruments, liquid handlers, or custom hardware.
• Ability to troubleshoot biological workflows and instrumentation using assay results, sensor readings, instrument logs, and bench measurements.
• Experience designing comparisons between bench and instrument performance, selecting controls, and setting measurable acceptance criteria.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with laboratory automation, liquid handling, microfluidics, cartridge-based systems, or development and testing of scientific instruments.

Responsibilities

• Adapt sample preparation, reagent handling, qPCR, and sequencing preparation methods to automated workflows on ARGUS.
• Define operating requirements for those workflows, including sample and reagent volumes, timing, temperature, and contamination control.
• Establish bench baselines and compare automated performance using recovery, inhibition, sequencing quality, and processing time.
• Design and run integration tests from individual fluidic and instrument subsystems through complete sample-to-result workflows.
• Isolate failures across biology, fluidics, sensing, controls, and instrument software; verify causes and fixes experimentally.
• Test workflow repeatability across operating conditions and verify performance after changes to hardware, software, reagents, or protocols.
• Maintain test plans, run records, protocol versions, and instrument configurations so failures can be reproduced and fixes tracked.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level