Senior Research Associate - Metabolomics

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:
We are seeking a creative and mission-aligned senior research associate to join our Analytics team in Redwood City, CA. Our goal is to discover and understand the role that metabolites and small molecules play in our products! The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven track record of outstanding research while opening up the boundaries of their research field. The person in this position will bring to bear state-of-the-art mass spectrometry techniques (LC-MS & GC-MS) in support of projects across the organization. An ideal candidate would have experience in Food Chemistry, flavor chemistry, sensory and perceptual research, biochemistry, or analytical chemistry, but driven and curious scientists from related fields will be considered as well.

You Will:

• Conduct targeted and untargeted metabolomics analyses for a variety of projects. 
• Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot LC-MS & GC-MS methods for metabolites of interest. 
• Extract metabolites and prep samples from different biological matrices. 
• Efficiently design, execute, and run experiments to drive understanding of biological systems. 
• Partner with other research groups to interpret experimental results in the context of impactful business decisions. 
• Be a champion for detailed science, and proactively teach and learn from others.

You Have:

• A Masters in Food Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or other analytically oriented field. Experience using HRMS and nominal mass spectrometry instruments (LC-MS, GC-MS).
• Experience conducting untargeted and targeted metabolomics analyses. Experience in sample extraction and prep techniques. Ability to work with sophisticated datasets.
• Applied experience in multivariate statistics and experimental design is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, statistical, scientific computing, data visualization, and interpersonal skills.
• Interest in actively learning and teaching others at Impossible Foods. Ability to thrive despite uncertainty.
• Passion for our Mission.

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.