Location: Ahmedabad

Experience: 4–6 years

Reports to: Technical Program Manager

About the Role

Charyas is building an applied food science platform focused on functional foods, fibre and ingredient systems.

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead who can independently take technical problems from hypothesis → experiment → prototype → validation → scale-up.

This is an execution-heavy role for someone who enjoys being in the lab, solving difficult formulation problems and building things—not a desk-based R&D; management position.

What You Will Own

- Lead formulation and application development across food and functional ingredient projects.
- Design and execute structured bench and pilot trials.
- Solve problems involving fibre, starch, hydration, binding, texture, stability and processing.
- Translate scientific literature and ingredient knowledge into practical experiments.
- Troubleshoot formulations and manufacturing processes.
- Take successful prototypes from bench → pilot → production.
- Build specifications, experimental protocols and technical documentation.
- Work directly with ingredient suppliers, laboratories, universities and technical experts.
- Guide junior food technologists and trial execution.
- Build reusable technical knowledge—not one-off formulations.

Non-Negotiables Hands-on: You must personally formulate, run trials and troubleshoot.

Strong fundamentals: Sound understanding of food chemistry, ingredient functionality and food processing.

Experimental discipline: Every important trial needs a hypothesis, controlled variables, measurements and conclusion.





Problem-solving ability: Comfortable tackling ingredients and applications you have not worked with before.

Scale-up exposure: You must understand how laboratory formulations behave differently in manufacturing.

Commercial thinking: Technical solutions must also work on cost, stability, manufacturability and repeatability.

Documentation: If an experiment isn’t properly recorded, it isn’t finished.

Ownership: You stay with a technical problem until there is a clear answer or path forward.

What We Are Looking For

- 4–6 years of hands-on experience in food R&D;, formulation, ingredient applications or process development.
- M.Sc / M.Tech / PhD in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Chemistry, Cereal Science or related discipline.
- Robust preference for experience with fibres, starches, hydrocolloids, cereals, bakery/nutrition systems or functional ingredients.
- Evidence of personally taking formulations from laboratory development toward commercial production.

How We Work The Technical Program Manager owns program priorities, timelines and coordination. The Technical Lead owns technical execution and scientific problem-solving.

You will have room to exercise independent technical judgment while working within a fast-moving development program.

Success in This Role

You will be successful if Charyas can give you an unfamiliar technical problem and trust you to structure the experiments, find the right expertise, run the work and get us to a technically sound answer.

We are looking for a builder, experimentalist and problem-solver.

📌 Technical Lead – Food & Ingredient Applications (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Charyas
📍 Ahmedabad