As Food scientist and part of our international R&D team, you will to help La Vie develop technologies that enable the development of convincing, plant-based products.

Your mission : reaching taste parity with animal meat!🥓

• Optimization of existing recipes parameters : nutritional value, ingredients cost monitoring, flavouring, organoleptic specifications (texture, smell, taste, sound, visual), internal validation tasting

• New product development : from marketing brief to launch

• Organise tastings for consumers and clients

• Manage production batches with technician for events and kitchen visitors

• Carry out experimental work to fulfil strict product specifications

• Keep a log of all productions and trials, and report back to the R&D team

• Opportunity to work with fundamental R&D and implement cutting edge technologies developed by the team

• Design meticulous experimental plans

• Industrial implementation working with our production places for scaling up recipes

• Last but not least : You keep your work environment safe and clean😉

• You have a degree in engineering

• You have a prior hands-on experience of 2-4 years conducting experiments in a lab/kitchen

• You have the ability to give and receive feedback

• You’re analytical and detail-oriented

• You’re Passionate about food and very curious to deepdive into plantbased!

• The perfect match is a rigorous, self-motivated, adaptable, and result-oriented person

• You’re fluent in English, French is a big plus

Process

You will have a first video call with HR, a second interview with your future manager, Antoine and a final one with our CTO, Vincent!

You kicked ass in those rounds AND your references confirmed that you’re quite the catch? AWESOME! → Welcome to the final meeting the R&D team!

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER

🌎 International environment : english speaking and various nationalities

💡Opportunities to learn and Grow : trainings, learning lunch, regular Q&A sessions with our leadership, honest discussions about our company KPIs, monthly feedbacks sessions

👩🏻‍🔬 Innovation : we are building a meaningful future together through team empowerment, expect to have responsibilities!

🌱 Impact : creating friendly products for society and environment. Sharing an office culture that prioritises low-waste and eco-friendly practices

💙 People-first : meet an awesome talented team : complicity and solidarity

♡ Values that brings us together : #Examplary #Ambition #Teamwork #Sunny

🤩 Trust : respect and transparency from the all team

🥳 Afterwork drinks with the team

🏃🏻‍♀️ A healthy mind in a healthy body : Team Participation in sport events!

BENEFITS

💰 A fair & competitive salary package with equity🥼 Alan insurance + Alan mind🚲50% Navigo or the equivalent in green mobility🌴 Holidays : 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days for long term contract CDI☀️Holiday pay🍌 🍎 🍇 🍊 Healthy snacks & a 100% Vegetarian Foodles Fridge👨🏻‍💻 IT tools of your choice from BackMarket💼 Office in Paris, with a 300 m² lab dedicated to product and technology development