What are the responsibilities and job description for the Food / Baking Scientist position at Eat Just, Inc.?
Eat Just is on a mission to build a healthier, safer, and more sustainable food system—starting with what’s on your plate. From pioneering plant-based eggs to making real meat without slaughter, we’re reimagining the future of food in ways that are better for people and the planet.
We’re a lean, passionate team of scientists, chefs, engineers, and operators who believe that doing hard things well can make a meaningful difference. We’ve brought groundbreaking innovations to market, like Just Egg and GOOD Meat, and we’re just getting started.
If you’re excited by big challenges, real impact, and the chance to shape what the future tastes like—we’d love to meet you.
Learn more about Just Egg →
Learn more about GOOD Meat →
About The Role
We’re looking for a hands-on, solutions-oriented Food Scientist with a deep curiosity for plant-based systems and a knack for translating benchtop formulations into scalable, high-quality products. Qualified candidates will have hands-on baking/baking application experience as well as an ability to branch out to other products. You’ll work closely with R&D, Culinary, Manufacturing, and Marketing to ensure our products deliver on taste, functionality, and performance in real-world baking environments.
What You'll Do
We Develop Our Salaries Using Market Data, Internal Benchmarks, And Candidate Experience To Ensure Fairness And Competitiveness. All Full-time Team Members Receive
Additional Information & Requirements
This is a full-time role based in the Bay Area with a minimum 5 days onsite requirement at our headquarters in Alameda, CA
This role requires unrestricted domestic and international travel required up to 15%.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Eat Just, Inc. participates in E-Verify.
We’re a lean, passionate team of scientists, chefs, engineers, and operators who believe that doing hard things well can make a meaningful difference. We’ve brought groundbreaking innovations to market, like Just Egg and GOOD Meat, and we’re just getting started.
If you’re excited by big challenges, real impact, and the chance to shape what the future tastes like—we’d love to meet you.
Learn more about Just Egg →
Learn more about GOOD Meat →
About The Role
We’re looking for a hands-on, solutions-oriented Food Scientist with a deep curiosity for plant-based systems and a knack for translating benchtop formulations into scalable, high-quality products. Qualified candidates will have hands-on baking/baking application experience as well as an ability to branch out to other products. You’ll work closely with R&D, Culinary, Manufacturing, and Marketing to ensure our products deliver on taste, functionality, and performance in real-world baking environments.
What You'll Do
- Lead product development for Just Flour and baked goods applications, from bench-top experiments through commercialization
- Work closely with Sales and Marketing to develop novel baking formulations for all Just ingredients.
- Apply baking science and formulation expertise to optimize functionality, texture, and stability of products using plant proteins and novel ingredients
- Conduct experimental testing to evaluate ingredient performance in products, such as water uptake, dough volumetry, viscometry, rheology, gluten replacement strategies, starch/protein interactions, and performance under different SOPs and processing conditions
- Translate lab results into scalable formulations, working closely with process engineers and manufacturing partners
- Partner with Culinary and Marketing teams to validate sensory, nutritional, and consumer acceptance of new products
- Generate and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, SOPs, and trial reports
- Stay current on bakery innovation, ingredient technologies, and sustainability trends to inform product strategy
- Take detailed records of all formulations, allowing to follow the path from first formulation to final product.
- BS or MS in Food Science, Baking Science, Food Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 3, ideally 5 years of experience including hands-on bakery product development (four, dough, breads, pastries, gluten-free or plant-based baking preferred)
- Strong understanding of ingredient functionality in bakery systems (starches, proteins, hydrocolloids, leavening systems, fats, and sweeteners)
- Demonstrated ability to innovate with novel ingredients while meeting commercial manufacturing requirements
- Experience with experimental design, rheology testing, and sensory evaluation
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Passion for sustainability, food innovation, and Eat Just’s mission
- Experience launching products from benchtop to shelf
- Familiarity with food safety standards and regulatory requirements for USDA- or FDA-regulated products
- Prior work in a startup or high-growth food company
We Develop Our Salaries Using Market Data, Internal Benchmarks, And Candidate Experience To Ensure Fairness And Competitiveness. All Full-time Team Members Receive
- Base salary
- Equity in Eat Just
- Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Additional health, wellness, and time-off programs
Additional Information & Requirements
This is a full-time role based in the Bay Area with a minimum 5 days onsite requirement at our headquarters in Alameda, CA
This role requires unrestricted domestic and international travel required up to 15%.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Eat Just, Inc. participates in E-Verify.
Salary : $135,000 - $175,000