We welcome you to join Torus Biosystems as a Mechanical Engineer.

We are building our core engineering team now. Our engineering lab is in Medford, Massachusetts, so it is expected that the successful candidate will commute to the office, but some days it’s cool to work remotely!

Your Role

Mechanical Engineer to interact with all aspects of our instrument and consumable manufacturing. For our new instruments, your primary role will involve development, manufacturing QC, instrument calibration, and workflow tools.

If you care about awesome documentation and understand the value of easy-to-CAM parts and 3D print prototypes to get an iteration done, then you will enjoy working on our team. Contributing to and guiding system documentation is expected, but so is collaboration with the science team to ideate and address issues.

Skills You Bring to the Role

• BS in Mechanical Engineering (or related field) and 7 years of industry experience, with a focus on product manufacturing.
• Effective communication skills.
  • We are a small team, and you will interact with our entire tech stack.
  • Responsible for communicating with vendors/contract manufacturers.
• Project lead experience
• Prepared to contribute to lead production FMEA mechanical part design and manufacturing immediately.
• Excellent modeling skills and workflow.
• Attention to detail and documentation.
• Required: Hands-on machining experience
• Preferred: Life science instrument design/production experience
• Preferred: Experience with plastic molding of production parts, including enclosures and components.
• Preferred: Experience with Onshape, COMSOL

About Torus Biosystems

Torus Biosystems, a spinout from the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, is on a mission to transform patient lives by delivering breakthrough innovations in infectious disease diagnostics. The Company is currently developing syndromic testing solutions based on the integration of novel technologies, including qPCR and microarray technologies, that enable rapid, quantitative, and highly multiplexed detection of microbial pathogens, resistance genes and host immune-response markers that ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes

Torus Biosystems is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law.

We believe in building diverse teams and encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.