Food Application Scientist

⭐️ About us

The Bland Company is a foodtech and biotech startup on a mission to make sustainable eating easy, affordable, and accessible for everyone.

We develop high-performance protein ingredients by transforming overlooked agricultural by-products into highly functional, clean-label proteins — enabling food companies to create more sustainable, better-performing, and cost-effective products.

We’re a team of 6 and are backed by US leading VC funds. Our founders are biochemists and biochemical engineers with track-record of developing next-gen food.

The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on, creative, and technically sharp Food Application Scientist to join our growing team. You’ll be the bridge between our ingredient innovation and the foods they go into — rapidly prototyping, testing, and iterating on formulations to showcase and improve our products.

This is a full-time role combining applied culinary skills, food science, and ingredient functionality testing — perfect for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments.

You’ll also work closely with our founding team to identify the most valuable food categories to go after — running early formulations for strategic client use-cases, and supporting pilots with partners.

Key Responsibilities :

• ⁠ ⁠Develop ingredient characterization data (e.g. solubility, emulsification, foaming, gelation) and translate into practical formulation insights
• ⁠ ⁠Develop and optimize food formulations using our novel protein ingredients across a range of applications (e.g. bakery, snacks, condiments, etc.)
• ⁠ ⁠Work directly on formulations for client-targeted use cases — helping validate functionality in real-world scenarios
• ⁠ ⁠Rapidly prototype and iterate on recipes based on functional goals
• ⁠ ⁠Conduct bench-scale trials and sensory testing; help design experiments to compare against commercial benchmarks
• ⁠ ⁠Help prioritize and identify the highest-potential food categories to target based on formulation performance and market fit
• ⁠ ⁠Maintain detailed records of formulations, results, and observations; contribute to technical data sheets and customer-facing documentation
• ⁠ ⁠Collaborate closely with our scientists and founders to give feedback on ingredient development and usability

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