Research Associate - Downstream Processing

Company: Impossible Foods
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Research Associate - Downstream Processing Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass. The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won't give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community. Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues. To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact. Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution-from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts. Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below: As a Research Associate in our Downstream Processing R&D group, you will perform experiments to advance Impossible Foods' biomanufacturing technology platform, with a focus on optimizing process design and economics for implementation at commercial-scale.-- You Will:

• Contribute to the development and optimization of scalable separation techniques to isolate target proteins from microbial hosts.
• Execute bench-scale and intermediate-scale experiments with downstream processing unit operations that include homogenization, continuous disk stack centrifugation, tangential flow filtration, formulation and freeze drying.
• Follow and execute equipment & process SOPs, and batch records with close attention to detail.
• Exercise ability to interpret data into conclusions and report to larger team to influence project direction.
• Be able to collaborate well in a small team of scientists and research associates.
• Carry out lab-scale physical properties and protein analytics include pH, Total Suspended Solids, Viscosity, UV-vis, Bradford, etc. You Have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in biology, life sciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemical engineering or related.
  • 2+ years of experience in an academic, industrial laboratory, or pilot plant setting.
  • Ability to stand for prolonged amounts of time and to perform physical labor involving lifting weight up to 50 lbs.
  • A basic understanding of fermentation and/or separation processes, especially centrifugation and TFF operations.
  • Demonstration of excellent record keeping, data management, and accountability.
  • Capacity to maintain a clean, sanitary, organized and safe workplace. Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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