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Flavor Chemist
Research | Redwood
City, CA, United States
Maraxi seeks a highly motivated flavor
chemist to join our dynamic team. Maraxi is a
disruptive Silicon Valley startup founded by scientists from Stanford and UC
Berkeley with top tier venture backing. We are developing novel technologies
to create great new foods from plant-derived ingredients that will transform
the world's food production system, greatly reducing its environmental impact
and increasing its efficiency and productivity.
Essential
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of tools
to measure and optimize the flavor and fragrance of food products.
- Identify and quantitate flavor
and fragrance components of food products.
- Develop methods on GC-MS, HPLC,
and LC-MS.
- Identify and install analytical
tools.
- Establish database of desired
flavor and fragrance molecules
- Perform flavor analysis and
report conclusions to teams.
- Analysis and quantitation of
small molecules and proteins. Rapid communication of results and
implications.
- Provide training on analytical
methods and ensure data quality across organization.
- Collaborate with other
scientists to achieve goals.
- Establish and maintain a safe,
mentoring work environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
& Experience
- PhD or equivalent in Analytical
chemistry, food science or related fields.
- Self-motivated individual with
strong oral and written communication skills with good organization
skills
- Ability to design experiments
and manage project teams effectively
- Ability to continuously
challenge assumptions, create new ideas, and push research daily
- Ability to work with diverse,
dynamic team effectively
- Determination to look under
non-obvious stones to find the best solution for the needed applications
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