Senior Research Associate - Flavor Research
Impossible Foods
Redwood City, CA, USA
Posted on Saturday, August 5, 2023
Impossible Foods was founded to transform the global food system and reduce the impact of climate change by making the world’s most delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat, fish, and dairy — from plants. We’re building a rockstar team of brilliant, collaborative, mission-driven individuals who take pride in using their diverse skills to contribute to saving our planet.
Want to join the movement? You can help us solve the most urgent, important challenge facing the world today (and have fun doing it).
We are seeking a mission-aligned Senior Research Associate to join the Flavor Research Department. You will work on understanding the analytical chemistry of beef flavor and use this information to create delicious novel product concepts and design the flavor research that drives the development of innovative flavor systems. And you will integrate these flavor systems into products. You are a curious, analytical, collaborative, and creative problem solver that enjoys building innovations and has experience in flavor research.
Essential Job Functions:
- Work as part of a team to deliver complex novel plant-based meat products
- Be a part of the team that which drives recreating flavor systems with meat identity, flavor integration in formulations, and finding solutions for off-flavors
- Use analytical approaches to identify and quantify key flavor compounds and reconstruct flavor profiles
- Use detailed sensory and instrumental assays to guide and validate progress
- Use outside-the-box exploration: playful exploration and de novo prototyping
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other R&D teams
- Assemble prototypes to answer product research objectives
- Participate in team tastings
- Design experiments which will answer flavor team objectives
- Voice ideas, concerns, and solutions to teammates
- Keep a detailed experimental notebook and batch records
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S./M.S. in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Food Science, or similar field with 1+ year of product innovation experience or analytical lab experience
- Experience with GCMS (TOF, single quad, FID)
- Experience with analytical methods of sample preparation for analysis
- Strong chemical intuition and knowledge of flavor chemistry
- Experience in designing experiments, data analysis, data interpretation, and communication results to fellow researchers
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with innovative research and development projects
- A passion to create delicious products
- Experience with formulation development
- Experience working in a food safe environment
- Self-starter that is naturally curious and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to continuously challenge assumptions to seek innovative solutions
Impossible Foods Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other trait protected by law.
If the ability to work remotely is indicated, this role can be performed from any US state except for Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.
This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.