Role

This role covers applications work across flour, savoury & bakery categories.

About Inaara NeoFoods:

Inaara NeoFoods is building India’s first farm-to-formulation platform for plant derived functional nutrients for everyday food by partnering with F&B; companies (domestic as well as exports) to develop scalable, clean-label and commercially viable food solutions. Inaara operates at the intersection of agriculture, advanced processing, applied food science and computational nutrition.

The founding team has deep expertise across agriculture, food systems, supply chains, technology and consumer businesses. Having built and scaled successful ventures in the agri-food ecosystem, the founders bring a unique combination of entrepreneurial vision, operational excellence and industry relationships, positioning Inaara to build a globally relevant nutrition platform from India.

Qualifications & Competencies:
Bachelor's or Master's in Food Technology or Food Science from Tier 1 institutes
3+ years hands-on product development, preferably multi-category
Understanding of protein functionality in food systems and what it does to sensorial & delivery
Working command of experimental design, statistical analysis and sensory evaluation
Scale-up experience from bench to pilot to commercial line




Ability to write explicit technical reports and application protocols
Experience formulating plant proteins, starches or dietary fibres
Extrusion, frying or thermal processing experience
Ingredient-side experience working to external customer briefs
Working knowledge of FSSAI labelling and nutrition claim requirements

Key Responsibilities:
Develop formulations across flour, savoury & bakery categories
Manage the effect on taste and texture as ingredient inclusion levels rise
Establish how our ingredients perform across these systems — dispersion, hydration, texture, mouthfeel, stability, and oil uptake in fried products
Convert customer briefs into bench plans, trial sets and technical recommendations
Plan and run structured trials, analyse the results and support conclusions with statistics
Establish usage levels, process windows and interactions with fat, sugar, salt, hydrocolloids and heat
Support pilot and plant trials with customers and copackers, including troubleshooting on the line
Build the applications library — formulations, usage guidelines and processing conditions

Location: Mumbai, India

Remuneration:
Market Competitive
Fixed + Variable

📌 Food Technologist – Ingredient Applications Mumbai
🏢 Inaara NeoFoods
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