Scientist, Product Application

Number of employees

100

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States

Posted on: 2022-12-26

Category: agritech

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Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

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Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence (A.I.) that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed’s proprietary A.I., Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions. 

ABOUT BRIGHTSEED
Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence (A.I.) that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed’s proprietary A.I., Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions. Visit www.brightseedbio.com to learn more.

ABOUT BIOACTIVES
Bioactives are small molecule compounds produced by plants, fungi, and microbes that grow in and adapt to environments that present a wide range of challenges to their survival. Bioactives also benefit the health of humans – they are the enlivening caffeine in tea, the powerful antioxidant lycopene in tomatoes or curcumin in turmeric, and they inform active ingredients in medicines like Taxol, aspirin and Metformin, the latter a first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes derived from the French lilac flower. Science has long known that bioactives are critical to human health, yet the vast majority remain unknown and uncharted – often referred to as the “dark matter” of nutrition. Brightseed’s A.I., Forager®, discovers bioactives in nature and maps them to human health outcomes at a rate and accuracy that was previously impossible.

ABOUT YOU
You are an accomplished food scientist, with experience developing consumer product prototypes and processes, to help deliver functional ingredients to the food, beverage and supplement industry.  You have been involved in key product development and commercialization activities, at the bench, pilot, and commercial scale, for ingredient use in consumer products such as supplement (tablets, caplets, gummies, powders) and food & beverage (Snacks, bars, cereals, functional beverages, etc) prototypes ; and you have conducted/coordinated sensory analyses. You will help develop in-depth understanding of the functional performance and bioavailability of these micronutrients using/developing novel processes.  Ultimately, your work will result in compelling, differentiated ingredients, and on-trend consumer product prototypes, that support and accelerate our selling efforts and engagement with customers.

THE BENEFITS YOU’LL ENJOY
As a lab based company, where in person collaboration is key to drive innovation, we encourage all team members to be in our office most days each week. However we appreciate and honor the need and desire for flexibility and have implemented a hybrid working model. We have a fully stocked healthy kitchen, a gym onsite, plenty of free parking, weekly team events and a state-of-the-art lab and office. 

We offer a competitive total rewards package with team-first benefits programs for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, unlimited paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance programs, 401(k) plan, a mental health platform, employee discounts, payroll credits for cell phone and commuter costs and a paid parental leave program.

JOIN US, AND BE YOU
We are committed to making transformative discoveries with a team-first mentality. Successful team members are truth-seeking and trusting, with the tenacity required to trail blaze in uncharted territory. We are a collaborative team that actively seeks input and values differing perspectives. And we produce tangible results, holding ourselves accountable in the process. 

We are also committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of connectedness and inclusion. We grow and learn together, respecting professional and personal experiences, areas of expertise, and types of self expression. 

In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that each one of us brings in terms of education, opinions, culture, color, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, different abilities, sexual orientation and beliefs.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

  • Develop applications capability within Brightseed and spearhead build out of our application lab at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. 
  • Create unique, on-trend prototypes to demonstrate the functional properties and differentiation of our ingredients with customers.
  • Develop deep understanding of the functional properties and advantages of our ingredients.
  • Drive sensory and functional testing to characterize our ingredients.
  • Act as the application and ingredient functionality subject matter expert (SME) in the organization and with customer counterparts to facilitate customer success and sales. 
  • THE EXPERIENCE YOU WILL NEED

  • Scientist - BS in Food Science, Chemistry or related scientific field: Food Technology, Food Engineering, Nutrition, Chemical Engineering and 5+ years experience working in application department of food ingredients manufacturer or similar focused on Human nutrition or MS with 2+ years experience.
  • Senior Scientist - BS with 11+ years experience or MS with minimum of 8+ years experience.
  • Deep knowledge of natural plant-based ingredients and ability to solve-for technical, texture, flavor and color issues using only natural ingredients.
  • Strong experience in developing health and nutrition driven formulas with the ability to optimize nutrition facts with the need for claims respecting limitations of ingredient list.
  • Strong experience in the following categories: RTM, Bars, Cereals, Extruded snacks, Cookies, Crackers and RTD.
  • Ability to be scrappy and come up with strong application solutions in a lab that is not fully equipped yet.
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