Senior Food Scientist

The role

The Senior Food Scientist provides customer support through technical onboarding, troubleshooting, and formula development. This role focuses on managing egg white replacement solutions in bakery and confections and optimizing food ingredients in finished applications.

What you will do

• Meet with leads, customers, and third parties to share data and assist in using ingredients.
• Develop and test formulations on behalf of customers.
• Manage and optimize the solution set for replacing egg white in bakery and confections.
• Design and execute experiments for ingredient usage, cost savings, and performance.
• Provide technical expertise relating product performance to molecular structures.
• Apply chemistry methodologies to assist in foundational learning around ingredient function.
• Apply advanced statistical methods to analyze data and find correlations.
• Conduct data analysis and present findings to stakeholders.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, technologies, and regulatory requirements.

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Food Science, Chemistry, or related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in food ingredient or CPG R&D
• Strong familiarity in bakery and/or confectionery applications
• Proven expertise in product development, specification writing, process development, and laboratory techniques
• Experience with customer interaction and presentation
• Experience participating in food ingredient product development to optimize quality attributes
• Ability to lead projects and manage timelines in a fast paced environment
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and using statistics to interpret data
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to have

• PhD in food science with 3+ years of industrial experience in food protein ingredients/products R&D or applications
• Experience working externally with B2B partners and vendors
• Prior experience in egg replacers and/or plant-based food

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k matching
• stock options
• Weekly catered lunches
• FSA, LSA, Commuter, Pet Care, and additional life insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 10+ paid company holidays per year
• Free parking
• unlimited gym access
• Unlimited sparkling water, granola bars, snacks, local coffee, and tea
• happy hours and quarterly company outings
• Monthly all-hands meetings and direct access to CEO and leadership

Before you apply

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
• We are not able to sponsor individuals for employment visas for this job

About the company

EVERY™ is a VC-backed food tech ingredient company using precision fermentation to create animal proteins without the animal. The team aims to decouple the world's proteins from animals using microorganisms.