Seasonings Scientist/Research Chef

Are you passionate about creating innovative seasoning and culinary solutions that bring food concepts to life and delight consumers around the world?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Taste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.

The role is based in our Carrollton, Texas facility (on-site 5x/week role). Be part of a creative, customer-focused, solution-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Develop and optimize seasoning blends, dry mixes, coatings, marinades, sauces, and flavor delivery systems across a variety of food categories.
• Create finished food applications and prototypes that demonstrate seasoning performance, functionality, and consumer appeal.
• Translate customer briefs into commercially viable solutions through formulation development, culinary expertise, and food science knowledge.
• Conduct bench-top development, pilot plant trials, and scale-up activities to support successful commercialization.
• Lead customer tastings, culinary demonstrations, innovation sessions, and ideation workshops to showcase product concepts and capabilities.
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate flavor performance, ingredient functionality, shelf life, stability, and processing requirements.
• Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to troubleshoot technical challenges and provide recommendations that support business growth.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, procurement, regulatory, marketing, sales, and product development teams to ensure successful product launches.
• Monitor market trends, emerging flavors, consumer insights, and culinary techniques to drive innovation and strengthen project pipelines.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Culinary Science, Culinary Arts, Food Technology, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in food product development, seasoning development, savory applications, culinary innovation, or related areas.
• Professional culinary experience with demonstrated expertise in food preparation, recipe development, and application creation.
• Strong knowledge of seasoning systems, ingredient functionality, flavor technologies, and food manufacturing processes.
• Experience supporting customer-facing projects, product commercialization activities, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding sensory evaluation methods, product optimization, and experimental design.
• Knowledge of food safety, labeling requirements, quality systems, and regulatory compliance within the food industry.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 25% as required to support customer engagements, plant trials, and business initiatives.

How Would You Stand Out?

• Culinary certification and/or formal culinary training. Prior working experience in an R&D corporate environment a huge plus.
• Experience developing seasonings, coatings, marinades, sauces, snack seasonings, or protein-based food applications.
• Advanced degree in Food Science or a related technical discipline.

Why Choose Us?

• Competitive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), vacation, holidays, 16 weeks paid parental leave, and annual incentive plan.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Recognized for disability inclusion and fostering an inclusive workplace.
• Innovation: Gain exposure to cutting-edge flavor, seasoning, and food application technologies.
• Global Collaboration: Work across diverse, cross-functional teams around the world.
• Sustainability: Contribute to solutions that support a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world.
• Professional Perks: Career development, commuter benefits, and tuition reimbursement incentives.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more