Associate Scientist, Quality Testing Methods Development

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest - if not only - way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better - more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products - and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.

Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
We are looking for an associate scientist to join our team. You will play a key role in our product development program by identifying, developing, and implementing a wide range of analytical, physio-chemical, and organoleptic test methods for monitoring process stability and product quality. You Will

• Partner with Quality, Product Development, and Manufacturing to assess product testing needs and develop appropriate testing methodologies
• Validate your test methods against real world consumer and customer applications by using consumer sensory testing, consumer i-HUTs, and shipping and abuse tests to assess packaging performance
• Develop recommendations for new product specifications and UCL and LCL for process monitoring and product release decisions
• Follow the latest scientific literature and assess commercially available QC test equipment and services
• Advise and train others on methods and techniques you have developed
• Coordinate cross functional efforts, organize meetings, and facilitate knowledge transfer and decision making across functions (R&D, Product Development and Business functions)
• Up to 30% travel may be required
• Other duties as assigned

You Have

• MS/Ph.D. in Food Science, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering or similar field
• 5 - 7 years experience developing multiple test methods
• Highly competent with design of complex experiments and associated data analysis
• Working knowledge of food product development
• Strong problem solver with extensive use of the scientific method as well as creative problem solving and experimental design
• Self-starter that is naturally curious and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• Highly organized and high attention to detail
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.