Food Technologist

Amai Proteins is the tasty Designer Protein company. Amai (means ‘sweet’ in Japanese) Pro-Protein platform combines: (a) Agile-Integrative Computational Protein Design (AI-CPD) to design proteins that are fit to the mass food market as to stability, taste, and other attributes; (b) precision fermentation production in an array of host organisms and (c) food technology to assess the Designer Proteins and integrate them to consumer-packaged goods.

The food technology team incorporates Amai’s protein, sweelin™ into numerous types of food and beverages while collaborating with companies around the world. Sensory evaluation and out-of-box solutions are applied to new challenges of the fast-moving food and beverage market. Interdisciplinary work with other departments within Amai fosters the next generation of sweetening solutions. Thus, the department is focused on better and new understanding of sweetening models with Amai’s breakthrough technologies.

Job Description

• Testing and implementing Amai ingredients in a variety of food and beverage applications
• Preparing samples for internal testing (coding, serving)
• Managing samples
• Conducting shelf-life studies
• Inventory management and ordering raw materials, equipment (internally and externally).
• Data management: in-house data management and external datamining.
• Participating in team meetings
• Preforming basic statistical calculations on results

Food technologist Requirements:

• B.A., B.Sc. in food science (this job opening is not relevant for Nutritionists and Dietitians )
• At least 2 years in development of food/beverages/food ingredients, working for international markets – advantage
• Good technical abilities
• Lab scale development work. Upscale experience – advantage
• Well-articulated in Hebrew and English. Other languages – advantage
• Computer – Office applications use. Statistical software - advantage

Location: Science Park – Rehovot For applications: hr@amaiproteins.com