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 experimentsto compare against commercial benchmarks

contribute to technicaldata sheets and customer-facing documentation

🎓 Requirements :

🎁 What You’ll Get :