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Principal Scientist, Industrial Applications

Employer
Impossible Foods
Location
Illinois Medical District, Illinois, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 20, 2021

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Sector
Academic / Research
Field
Conservation science
Discipline
Climate Change
Salary Type
Salary
Employment Type
Full time
Principal Scientist, Industrial Applications

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 experienced, motivated, and mission-aligned Principal Scientist to join the Product Development and Commercialization team. You will use your process expertise to advise customers and develop processing and packaging recommendations that enable Impossible to enter new market channels.
You Will
  • Serve as an expert on meat processing technologies such as grinding, forming, breading, freezing, dough enrobing, and cooking.
  • Provide customer application support to animal meat processing facilities enabling them to use Impossible's plant based meat in their processes.
  • Serve as the senior technical leader to multiple project teams responsible for developing raw and cooked plant based meats
  • Design and lead plant scale trials to evaluate the manufacturability of new products and processes
  • Collaborate with Packaging, Product Innovation and Manufacturing plants on product design and processing methods
  • Up to 50% travel at times may required
  • Other duties as assigned
You Have
  • Degree in Food Science, Chemical Engineer or a related field
  • 12+ yrs experience working with meat manufacturing process development or product development
  • Deep knowledge of meat processing methods and technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and investigate research problems
  • People management is a plus
  • Ability to thrive in a diverse, dynamic team, fast paced environment
  • Comfortable and effective providing application support to customers and other third parties
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.
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice . By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.

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