Senior Technologist, Taste Applications, Beverages, North America (Princeton, NJ)
Location: Princeton, NJ
Join a collaborative technical team at the forefront of beverage innovation. As a Senior Technologist - Beverages, you'll partner with customers, flavorists, sales teams, and consumer insights experts to create exciting beverage solutions that bring our flavors, ingredients, and technologies to life. This role offers the opportunity to shape customer success, influence innovation, and grow your career in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Your key responsibilities
• Manage flavor applications and associated technical support across diverse beverage projects.
• Design and execute complex initiatives, developing beverage application bases and innovative concepts showcasing our flavors, ingredients, and technologies.
• Participate in the technical selling team to strengthen customer relationships and mentor junior professionals.
• Manage project briefs, champion actions to achieve objectives, and lead customer work sessions and technical presentations.
• Apply expertise in beverage flavors, ingredients, formulations, and processes while building a strong network across the technical community.
• Maintain knowledge of customer strategies, brands, and products while staying informed on industry trends, ingredients, and emerging technologies.
You Bring
• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, or a related scientific discipline with 7+ years of beverage industry experience, or a Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven expertise in beverage formulation, flavor application, and technical troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing beverage applications and supporting commercialization activities.
• Familiarity with pilot plant equipment and scale-up processes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills for customer-facing and cross-functional interactions.
The salary or hourly wage scale provided reflects the pay range dsm-firmenich expects to pay the successful candidate for the position. Individual pay offered will be based on the applicant's job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and primary work location. Salary $115,000 - $128,000.
In addition to base salary, we also offer a comprehensive total rewards package, inclusive of annual incentive pay, a retirement savings plan, health care coverage, paid time off, recognition programs and a broad range of other benefits. All benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements.
The application process
Interested in this position? Please apply online by uploading your resume in English via our career portal. We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on October 16, 2026.
Agency statement
We're managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you're applying as an individual, we'd love to hear from you. We're not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.
