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 transparent 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
📍 Mumbai