Remote Culinary Engineer & Product Developer - Plant-Based

Wholly Veggie; Toronto; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wholly Veggie in Toronto is seeking a hands-on Product Developer who blends culinary creativity with food science to turn home kitchen prototypes into scalable products. You will travel to Ontario manufacturing facilities weekly, develop recipes, run small-batch tests, document results, and partner with co-manufacturers to launch new frozen snacks.

This remote-first role requires Ontario residence, strong recipe-development skills, and the ability to translate kitchen experiments into commercial

Qualifications

• Professional experience spanning both hands-on culinary development and food science or technical food formulation
• At least 4-5 years of relevant experience in food product development, culinary R&D or commercial food manufacturing.
• Strong cooking and recipe-development skills plus a practical understanding of ingredient functionality and processing.
• Ability to independently plan, execute, document and present development work while working remotely.
• Residence in Ontario and ability to visit manufacturing facilities in person at least weekly.
• Access to a clean, functional, suitably equipped home kitchen for recipe development and small-batch testing.

Responsibilities

• Culinary innovation: develop recipes and prototype concepts from concept to bench-top prototypes.
• Develop original recipes and flavour profiles with emphasis on craveable taste, texture and appearance.
• Conduct small-batch trials from a suitable home kitchen; document ingredients, methods, yields and results.
• Explore emerging ingredients, food trends and culinary techniques; benchmark competitive products.
• Improve existing formulas based on product feedback, quality opportunities and cost targets.
• Apply food science principles to ingredient functionality, binding, texture, moisture, stability and processing.
• Develop repeatable formulas with commercial ingredient availability, nutritional objectives and product cost in mind.
• Evaluate freezing, thawing, heating and reheating performance, including air-fryer and oven preparation.
• Troubleshoot technical issues with ingredients, processing conditions and finished-product consistency.
• Maintain accurate formulas, trial reports, ingredient specifications and development records.
• Travel to manufacturing facilities in Ontario at least once per week, with additional visits around key trials or launches.
• Work directly with plant teams and co-manufacturers to translate kitchen recipes into scalable manufacturing processes
• Participate in plant trials, pilot runs and initial commercial production; record results and next actions.
• Help solve manufacturing issues related to texture, yield, equipment, quality, ingredient substitutions and cost.
• Run structured sensory evaluations and competitive benchmarks for taste, texture, aroma and appearance.
• Validate consumer cooking directions and evaluate product quality under realistic at-home preparation conditions.
• Recommend formula or process improvements and track outcomes through additional testing.

Job description

Wholly Veggie in Toronto is seeking a hands-on Product Developer who blends culinary creativity with food science to turn home kitchen prototypes into scalable products. You will travel to Ontario manufacturing facilities weekly, develop recipes, run small-batch tests, document results, and partner with co-manufacturers to launch new frozen snacks.

This remote-first role requires Ontario residence, strong recipe-development skills, and the ability to translate kitchen experiments into commercial