Food Technologist / Scientist

Unived Healthcare Products Private Limited; India; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Unived Healthcare Products Private Limited is seeking a Food Technologist / Scientist based in Goa. The role focuses on applying literature-based dosing decisions to formulation development for every active in all products.

The candidate should have formal training in food science or related fields (M.Sc or higher) and possess a researcher’s instinct to critically evaluate evidence and update internal models accordingly. Goa facility-based role.

Qualifications

• Formal training in food science, nutrition science, or related fields—M.Sc or higher.
• A researcher’s instinct: ability to read papers carefully and update views when new evidence appears.
• Experience or familiarity with formulation development and laboratory work is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Formulation development for new products.
• Reformulation of existing products when evidence shifts.
• Ingredient evaluation—branded vs generic, form selection, supplier qualification.
• Stability testing, dissolution work, bench prototyping.
• Working with third‑party labs on identity, potency, and contamination testing.
• Contributing to Quarterly R&D Reports when they begin publication.

Job description

Food Technologist / Scientist

Goa

About Unived

Unived's product development process is built around answering one question for every formulation: why exactly this dose, of exactly this ingredient form, in exactly this amount. The answer comes from the literature, not from convention. The Food Technologist / Scientist role is where that question is answered, every day, for every active in every product.

The kind of person, before the qualifications.

Someone with formal training in food science, nutrition science, or related fields — M.Sc or higher. Equally important: a researcher's instinct. Someone who reads papers carefully, who is sceptical of confident claims, who can hold the literature lightly enough to update their view when better evidence appears.

What this role does

The work, plainly described.

The Food Technologist / Scientist works on the substance of every product we make:

• Formulation development for new products
• Reformulation of existing products when evidence shifts
• Ingredient evaluation — branded vs generic, form selection, supplier qualification
• Stability testing, dissolution work, bench prototyping
• Working with third-party labs on identity, potency, and contamination testing
• Contributing to the Quarterly R&D Reports when they begin publication

This is a science-first role. The day-to-day is real laboratory work, not theoretical research.

What's hard about this role at Unived

A scientist who is happiest at the bench. Someone whose pleasure comes from a stability run that comes back clean, or a formulation that finally dissolves the way it should.

A person who reads the latest meta-analyses in their field and updates their internal model accordingly, without ego.

What's hard about this role at Unived

The honest version.

The standard is the literature, and the literature is hard. You will sometimes have to tell the team that an ingredient cannot be included at the dose they want, because the evidence does not support it. That is the job; some people find it difficult.

No shortcuts. We do not use proprietary blends, we do not use cheaper forms when better ones exist, we do not approve formulations on commercial grounds. You will be expected to hold that line.

Based in Goa at the manufacturing facility — close to bench work and production.