About Caliper Foods

Caliper Foods (caliperfoods.life), formerly Stillwater, is a consumer packaged goods company that offers safe and standardized hemp-derived soluble cannabinoids to both consumers and manufacturers alike. 

Caliper Foods encompasses two distinct business lines: (1) Caliper Commercial Ingredients, which provides soluble CBD ingredients at scale to food, beverage, supplement, and other CPG manufacturers; and (2) Caliper Consumer, which sells its own line of CBD-infused products nationwide. 

Caliper Foods was founded in 2015 on the belief that cannabinoids, especially non-psychoactive compounds like CBD, are a major new category in functional ingredients.

About the Job

We are looking for a Senior Food Scientist to develop high quality, cannabinoid based functional foods designed for broad scale consumer markets. This is a fast paced and dynamic role that leverages the applied sciences for near term product commercialization. The role is R&D based with significant growth opportunities in Caliper Foods. 

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Develop industry leading, cannabinoid based, functional foods and beverages. Application is business to business focused, leveraging Caliper Foods water soluble technologies across multiple product formats. This requires:
  • In depth knowledge of existing product portfolio and processes.
  • Expertise in both ingredient functionality and processing to control for consistency at scale. 
  • Formulation development, scale up tests, shelf life testing and documentation
  • Creation of Design of Experiments (DOE) when appropriate. 
  • Effective documentation of results through reports, databases, graphs, data analysis and white papers
• Work closely with new clients to ensure flawless integration of Caliper Foods products into their business needs at the R&D and production level
• Manage existing clients for technical needs - shelf life, product quality, future and existing applications
• Work closely with sales to provide technical information in customer friendly, easy to understand formats 
• Actively seek to expand our water soluble technologies, internally and externally
• Develop and commercialize new product platforms in the skin care and beauty space 
• Develop new products for blue sky applications
• Work closely with food based vendors, such as flavor houses, ingredient suppliers, natural color suppliers and carrier oils to recommend and develop new ingredient solutions
• Create new product and ingredient specifications
• Understand basic food label needs for organic, kosher, non artificial, allergens and customer “clean label” requirements
• Guide sourcing of new raw materials for functionality, quality and labeling requirements
• Ensure product quality, documentation and food safety needs are met for new products
• Ability to work with coman operations
• Work effectively and safely in a food manufacturing environment

What we’ll love about you:

• A process-oriented problem solver who can manage complex situations without panicking

• A team player with a distaste for mercenaries

• An organized, proactive nature that loves building systems and tools

• An emotionally mature adult who prefers to work with other emotionally mature adults

• An inquisitive, curious nature that views ignorance as an opportunity to learn or teach

• A willingness to admit error quickly and move immediately on to improvement

• A clear communicator in any format

• Excellent time management skills

What you’ll love about us:

• A fast-growing company with a deep belief in the value of developing talent internally from within
• A group of sane, rational executives who try their best to be decent human beings
• An environment where fire drills are the exception, not the norm
• We offer flexible PTO for all full-time employees
• We pay competitive salaries for all roles. For salaried employees, we also cover 100% of your healthcare premium
• For more details on the culture we foster, visit: http://bit.ly/2F5zhPt

Qualifications:

• Master of Science preferred with 5+ years of product development experience
• A deep scientific understanding of food systems
• Diverse food processing scale up experience
• Scientific foresight to predict and address product modes of failure early in the development cycle
• A strong drive for results
• Enjoys the applied sciences and can creatively leverage it for product development
• Strong problem solving skills
• Enjoys working in a team environment
• Values data driven design but is comfortable moving ahead when working with limited data or information through intentful risk assessments.
• Exercises sound decision making skills under pressure
• Experience in DOE and MiniTab 
• Deep understanding of ingredient functionality 
• Experience in food emulsions and beverage formulation