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🥝 R&D Food Scientist

Actalent | Leesburg, United States | Posted June 29, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: R&D Food Scientist / R&D TechnologistJob Description
This role focuses on developing and improving food and nutritional products by formulating new recipes, conducting sensory and laboratory testing, and ensuring all products meet regulatory and quality standards. You will work closely with flavor chemists, vendors, customers, and internal teams to recreate requested flavors, build and maintain formulas in Excel, and support both technical and commercial aspects of product development, including a sales and cost-planning component.
Responsibilities

+ Conduct organoleptic (sensory) testing to evaluate flavors and determine the profiles needed to create or recreate food and nutritional products, such as non-dairy creamers and other flavored items.

+ Create, maintain, and adjust product formulas using Excel, ensuring accuracy of ingredients, quantities, and cost data.

+ Source ingredients and packaging components to fulfill formula requirements,...

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