Technical Operations Engineer
About the job
- A Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a similar discipline is required.
- Strong understanding of electromechanical devices and their interactions is required.
- Must enjoy hands-on work with life sciences technology.
- Ability and desire to troubleshoot technical issues is required.
- Must be organized, proactive, and independent, with attention to detail and communication skills.
- Must be ready to work in a startup environment and adapt to unclaimed challenges.
- Handle day-to-day maintenance and changes on GutLab units, including mechanical, electrical, and firmware work.
- Keep units functional and deployment-ready and improve the processes and tooling that support them.
- Prepare and release GutLab hardware for upcoming partnership deployments and support the Operations team's day-to-day needs.
- Log failures, investigate root causes, follow through on fixes, and keep quality metrics and tracking current.
- Support next-generation hardware builds alongside senior engineers, from design through assembly.
- Take on mechanical design problems and iterate toward measurable performance gains.
About the company
BiomeSense provides an integrated platform for gut microbiome analysis, combining an at-home biosensor for continuous monitoring with a cloud-based, AI-powered data analysis system. Users collect longitudinal microbiome data at home, which is securely transmitted to the cloud where AI algorithms identify patterns and track changes over time. The company differentiates itself by offering a low-cost, large-scale hardware-and-software solution designed for clinical trials and consumer health, rather than relying on single-time-point tests. Its goal is to help researchers and product teams use microbiome data to understand health and disease and advance precision medicine.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$5.4M
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- BiomeSense won a $676,980 NIH SBIR/STTR award in June 2026.
- The October 2025 $7M round added Labcorp Venture Fund and Bluestein Ventures.
- Updated August 2026 website shows active product development and partner messaging.
What critics are saying
- The 2024 Pendulum pilot enrolled only 15 people, proving science, not revenue.
- BiomeSense still lacks broad commercial traction; 2026 evidence shows grants, not scaled contracts.
- If GutLab adoption stalls, larger microbiome platforms and simple sequencing workflows outcompete BiomeSense.
What makes BiomeSense unique
- GutLab and MetaBiome target continuous, longitudinal microbiome data, not single stool snapshots.
- BiomeSense claims 30x more data and up to 90% per-sample cost reduction.
- Pendulum’s 2024 pilot validated home-based serial sampling with BiomeSense's GutLab.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Stock Options
- Paid Vacation
- Parental Leave