Jake Adler

1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.

Hundreds of companies in aerospace deploy hardware for defense, but in biology, there’s just Pilgrim.

We’re looking for an exceptional engineer to own hardware: 20-layer HV rigid-flex, negotiating with fabs, and making PCBs do things you’ve never seen before.

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Excited to welcome Matt Watson (@BioAndBaseball) to Pilgrim to help lead our policy efforts!

Matt has spent more than 15 years working across biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and national security. During COVID-19, he served as a senior advisor at @HHSGov, leading the development of the tools used to track hospital capacity nationwide and identify where the healthcare system was under strain.

At the Center for Health Security, he worked alongside Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the global campaign that eradicated smallpox. He also directed Johns Hopkins’ Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) program, whose fellows have held leadership roles at the White House, DHS, CDC, In-Q-Tel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

We’re thrilled to have Matt on board as we build the nation’s biodefense infrastructure! 🇺🇸

Excited to welcome Rob Whitehurst to Pilgrim to help lead our government operations!

Rob has spent nearly 30 years confronting biological and explosive threats, including 14 years at DHS, where he coordinated biodefense operations for the World Cup after leading a 1,200-person COVID screening operation across 15 international airports and along the Southwest border.

Prior to DHS, Rob served 13 years in the Army and Air Force, conducting 250+ combat missions and neutralizing over 300 explosive threats, including IEDs and insurgent bomb-making labs.

Few people have his experience deploying biodefense capabilities at a national scale. Having known Rob for nearly two years, we're glad to have him aboard as we build the nation's biodefense infrastructure.