ABOUT US:

Based in Berkeley, CA, UPSIDE Foods grows meat, poultry, and seafood directly from real animal cells. These products are not vegan or vegetarian—they are delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals. In doing so, the company aims to address some of the most pressing environmental, animal welfare, and public health challenges, while still giving people the meat they love.
Founded as the world’s first cultivated meat company in 2015, UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has achieved numerous industry-defining milestones, including being the first company to produce multiple species of meat (beef, chicken, and duck) and to sell a cultivated meat product in the United States. The company believes that people shouldn’t have to choose between the foods they love and a thriving planet, and is working to build a better food system with access to delicious, humane, and sustainable meat, poultry, and seafood.
UPSIDE Foods has won various industry awards, including New York Times’ Good Tech Awards, FastCo’s Next Big Thing in Tech and World Changing Ideas Awards, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources. UPSIDE Foods has raised a total of $608 million, including from the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Baillie Gifford, Bill Gates, Cargill, John Doerr, John Mackey, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest, Richard Branson, Softbank, Temasek, Threshold, Tyson Foods, and others.

ABOUT THIS JOB:

The Sensory Technologist will primarily be responsible for assisting in all Sensory led projects to make tastier meat. We’re looking for someone who enjoys fast-paced growth, is comfortable with change, and is passionate about science, people and food. You should be able to prepare samples, evaluate prototypes, and collect data. This role will have an opportunity to work with different teams within UPSIDE.

• Independently manages and executes planned sensory experiments by preparing incoming raw material/product, labeling, packaging, further processing and storage.
• Using sensory software to field tests and collect data.
• Label sample cups, set-up, clean-up, and serve for taste panels. Comply with appropriate SOPs, established policies and procedures.
• Maintain sensory training, project, laboratory, experimental, and quality testing and records.
• Standardize, use and maintain any laboratory equipment. Prepare and ship samples for external analytical testing, when needed by the Sensory Team.
• Ensure that all safety guidelines and procedures are followed as safety of our employees is a primary responsibility.
• Summarizing and presenting results and recommendations to the larger team in an organized, concise, and logical manner, both verbally and visually.
• Tasting and assessing a range of animal proteins.
• Other tasks as assigned which may include cleaning product/equipment storage areas, shopping, packaging and shipping products.