Senior Food Scientist

ABOUT EVERYDAY DOSE

Everyday Dose is redefining the daily coffee ritual. Our mushroom + collagen coffee blend helps people feel focused, calm, and energized without the jitters, crashes, or gut issues of traditional coffee. We're a fast-growing functional wellness brand with a loyal DTC customer base, an expanding retail footprint, and an innovation pipeline that's rewriting the rules of what a coffee company can make.

We're building an R&D bench to develop the next generation of functional products and we need someone who is as obsessed with the science of how something works as they are with how it tastes.

THE ROLE

We're hiring a Senior Food Scientist to work directly with the CEO and lead the development of new functional beverage formulations from benchtop through commercialization. This is a science-forward role with full ownership of the formulation work - analytical rigor, sensory methodology, and ingredient functionality are the core of the job, and you'll set the technical direction for how we formulate.

Coffee formulation, sweetener systems, and flavor systems experience is a meaningful differentiator. We work extensively with complex functional stacks layered into coffee systems, and we need someone who understands the sensory, solubility, and stability challenges that come with that.

This role owns formulation end-to-end. Regulatory, co-manufacturer management, and quality assurance are partnered functions - your bench is the center of gravity, not a service desk. As we grow the team, this seat will mentor junior food scientists and lab technicians and define what good looks like across the bench.

A food science degree is preferred but not required. Demonstrated bench experience, shipped products, and functional beverage expertise are what we're actually evaluating.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Benchtop Formulation & Product Development

• Own new functional beverage formulations end-to-end: first prototype through stability-validated, production-ready formula. You drive the technical direction on each project, not just execute against a brief.
• Develop and iterate on coffee bases across multiple SKUs: evaluate flavor profile, solubility, mouthfeel, and ingredient compatibility.
• Formulate around functional ingredient constraints with a rigorous understanding of how each interacts with a particular carrier system.
• Determine functional performance and sensory properties of ingredients in finished products using established analytical and sensory evaluation tools.
• Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities across formulations without compromising sensory or functional integrity.
• Build and maintain version-controlled formulation records: batch sheets, trial reports, experimental write-ups, taste evaluation records, and handover documents - and set the documentation standard the rest of the bench follows.

Analytical Testing & Stability

• Design and execute shelf-life, stability, and oxidation studies across formats and storage conditions, flagging sensory, appearance, or functional changes over time and making data-driven reformulation recommendations.
• Partner with the Quality Manager and external analytical labs to collect data on nutritional content, microbial testing, and packaging compatibility.
• Prepare finished good formulas for costing, nutritional analysis, and sensory review, ensuring accuracy of nutrition facts panels and ingredient declarations.
• Organize benchtop trials, pilot plant sessions, and shelf-life testing timelines with cross-functional teams.

Sensory Evaluation

• Design and run internal sensory panels - blind tastings, triangle tests, paired comparisons - synthesizing feedback into actionable formulation changes.
• Evaluate competitive and benchmark products systematically: identify taste, texture, and functional gaps our formulas need to close or beat.
• Support consumer lab testing (CLT) programs by preparing samples, documenting protocols, and interpreting sensory results for go/no-go formulation decisions.

Ingredient Research & Innovation

• Stay ahead of the functional ingredient landscape - emerging adaptogens, novel delivery formats, clinically-studied actives - and bring validated, evidence-backed ideas to the innovation pipeline.
• Source and evaluate new ingredients: pulling COAs, reviewing third-party clinical data, confirming certifications, and assessing sensory impact in finished product.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and ingredient research to identify formulation white space and emerging category trends.
• Co-lead new product ideation with the CEO, contributing both scientific rigor and sensory instinct to early-stage innovation.

Technical Leadership

• Set the technical bar for formulation work across the bench. As we add junior scientists and lab technicians, mentor them on methodology, documentation, and sensory craft.
• Communicate project status, formulation decisions, and technical tradeoffs clearly to the CEO and cross-functional stakeholders. Make the call when the call needs to be made.
• Travel as needed to…