About the role

StrainX makes precision-fermented food ingredients. An ingredient, however well made, is only helpful once it works inside something real — a beverage that stays stable on a shelf, a bakery format that holds its texture, a confectionery matrix where the sweetness lands in the right place at the right moment.

Closing that gap is this job. You will take our ingredients and turn them into prototypes customers can taste, and into data that shows how they'll perform in their own products.

What you'll do

- Develop and optimize food and beverage formulations using StrainX specialty ingredients
- Run application trials across beverages, dairy, confectionery, bakery, snacks and nutraceutical formats
- Characterize ingredient performance — sweetness, solubility, stability, flavor profile, texture and matrix compatibility
- Produce application data sheets, prototype demonstrations and customer-ready technical documentation
- Work with sensory teams on internal tastings and evaluation panels
- Support customer trials, pilot demonstrations and B2B product integrations
- Feed findings back to our fermentation, downstream and analytical teams
- Keep work aligned with FSSAI and global novel food regulatory frameworks

What we're looking for

- M.Sc., B.Tech or M.Tech in Food Technology, Food Science, Dairy Technology, Food Chemistry or a related field
- Freshers to 3 years in food product or application development — FMCG, ingredient companies, flavor houses or R&D; labs




- A working understanding of ingredient interactions, sensory science, stability studies and prototype creation
- Exposure to sweeteners, proteins, hydrocolloids, emulsifiers, flavors or alternative proteins
- The discipline to design a structured experiment and document it properly
- A creative, solution-oriented approach, and comfort in a fast-moving environment

Nice to have

- Experience with precision-fermented ingredients
- Sensory panel management, or formal sensory training
- Clean-label formulation, plant-based product development or sugar-reduction work
- Nutraceutical, functional food or RTD beverage formulation

Why this role is worth taking

You will work with ingredients that did not exist commercially a few years ago, and the prototypes you build go in front of global B2B partners. The plant is here in Bhopal, which means the fermentation team, the downstream team, and the analytical team are all people you can walk over to.

For someone early in their career, that combination — new ingredients, real customers, and everyone within walking distance — is rare.

About StrainX

StrainX is a precision fermentation company with a working factory in Bhopal and an R&D; center in Bangalore. Venture-backed, more than a hundred people, three years of building.

To apply

Write to [email protected] with your CV and a short note. If you can, use the subject line: Application for Food Application Development Scientist – Your Name.

📌 Food Application Development Scientist (Bhopal)
🏢 StrainX Bioworks
📍 Bhopal