Senior Food Scientist

Job Description

Job Description

About us :

Based in Berkeley, CA, UPSIDE Foods grows meat, poultry, and seafood directly from real animal cells. These products are not vegan or vegetarian—they are delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals. In doing so, the company aims to address some of the most pressing environmental, animal welfare, and public health challenges, while still giving people the meat they love.

Founded as the world's first cultivated meat company in 2015, UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has achieved numerous industry-defining milestones, including being the first company to produce multiple species of meat (beef, chicken, and duck) and to sell a cultivated meat product in the United States. The company believes that people shouldn't have to choose between the foods they love and a thriving planet, and is working to build a better food system with access to delicious, humane, and sustainable meat, poultry, and seafood.

UPSIDE Foods has won various industry awards, including New York Times' Good Tech Awards, FastCo's Next Big Thing in Tech and World Changing Ideas Awards, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources. UPSIDE Foods has raised a total of $608 million, including from the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Baillie Gifford, Bill Gates, Cargill, John Doerr, John Mackey, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest, Richard Branson, Softbank, Temasek, Threshold, Tyson Foods, and others.

About this job :

Reporting to the Director of Product Development and Sensory, the Senior Food Scientist will primarily be responsible for owning a workstream within the food product development team, translating the commercial product roadmap into technical product projects. In this role, you will blend deep technical skills with a commercial mindset to execute and launch products against the product pipeline. The ideal candidate should be capable of designing and executing experimental plans, influenced by current research, using a combination of critical thinking and benchtop prototyping experience. Being highly organized in data collection and analysis, able to engage in cross-functional collaborations as a technical SME, and manage multiple projects at various stages of development are all vital skills for success in this role.

Responsibilities include :

• Owns the design and execution of broad product development experiments across multiple product projects within the cultivated meat category.
• Able to independently research, identify, and test novel food technology solutions - must be able to work autonomously.
• Owns and organizes operational data over prototype lifecycle (SOPs, formulas, photos, tasting notes, analytical testing, etc.) and can identify / correct areas for improved data capture and organization across the product development team.
• Represents the Food R&D team as a technical SME within cross-functional team collaborations to meet multiple, complex project deadlines.
• Develop relationships with external partners and suppliers and represent UPSIDE professionally within these collaborations.
• Able to analyze, summarize, and present data to the broader team with a focus on how the results will impact our commercial product initiatives.
• Acts as a technical mentor to more junior scientists on the product development team.

About you :

Who you'll work with :

Compensation Range : $105,000 - $145,000

UPSIDE Benefits!

UPSIDE Foods is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our company-wide mission is to create a product for everyone, so we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.