Scientist - Product Safety

Global Headquarters
Idaho Falls, , USA

• On-site
• Travel Required :
  No
• Research & Development
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: RDSCI
  004651

At Melaleuca, our mission has remained constant:
To Enhance the Lives of Those We Touch by Helping People Reach Their Goals.

For 40 years, we’ve built a business around wellness, developing and manufacturing effective, high-quality products designed to be safer for families, homes, and the environment. Today, Melaleuca offers more than 400 wellness products across nutrition, personal care, beauty, and home care, serving millions of customers around the world.

Our continued growth creates an exciting opportunity for a Scientist focused on Product Safety to join our Research & Development team at our Global Headquarters in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

As a Scientist – Product Safety, you will apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to help ensure the safety of Melaleuca’s ingredients and products throughout their lifecycle.

Working closely with Product Safety leadership and partners across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical Research, and other technical teams, you’ll evaluate scientific evidence, assess consumer exposure, identify potential risks, and translate complex science into clear, practical recommendations that support product innovation and consumer safety.

• Assess Product Safety: Conduct safety assessments of ingredients, formulations, and finished products using toxicological data, scientific literature, exposure information, and other relevant evidence.
• Evaluate Risk & Exposure: Apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to characterize hazards, evaluate consumer exposure, and determine safe conditions of use.
• Interpret the Science: Search and critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data, applying weight-of-evidence approaches to identify data gaps and develop scientifically sound conclusions.
• Enable Product Innovation: Partner with formulators and product development teams to identify safety considerations early, recommend appropriate testing or risk mitigation, and help advance safe products from concept through commercialization.
• Support Post-Market Safety: Evaluate adverse events, product complaints, and emerging scientific issues to identify potential safety signals and support appropriate follow-up.
• Communicate with Impact: Prepare clear, scientifically defensible safety documentation and translate complex technical findings into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.

• Master’s degree or  Toxicology, Pharmacology, Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, or a closely related scientific discipline.
• Ph.D. with 0–3 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 2–5 years of experience in toxicology, product safety, human health risk assessment, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in toxicology, including the relationship between hazard, dose, exposure, and risk.
• Ability to critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data and develop evidence-based conclusions.
• Strong scientific writing, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced product development environment.

• Experience in consumer products, personal care/cosmetics, household products, dietary supplements, food, pharmaceuticals, or related industries.
• Experience conducting ingredient, formulation, or finished-product safety assessments and exposure assessments.
• Familiarity with modern safety assessment approaches such as weight-of-evidence, read-across, TTC, in silico methods, NAMs, or other…