Lead Nutritionist — AI-Driven Menu Nutrition (Remote)

Foodini; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote within US

Occasional travel

Job summary

Foodini seeks a Lead Nutritionist to oversee nutrition calculation and guide our dietitians. You will define standards behind nutrition-based menu attributes and work with engineering to implement methods in DietaryAI.

You will ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance while guiding client onboarding and industry discussions. The role emphasizes managing scale, data at menu level, and aligning with GLP-1 protein and other nutrition trends.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) credential or an equivalent degree in nutrition or food science with relevant analysis experience.
• Real experience calculating nutrition for restaurant or food-service menus; not just clinical work.
• Familiarity with FDA menu labeling requirements and nutrient analysis software.

Responsibilities

• Own Foodini's nutritional analysis methodology including reference database selection and ingredient matching standards.
• Lead the dietitian team and act as the technical authority they check their work against.
• Define nutrition-based attributes and the thresholds, evidence, and language for claims such as high protein or GLP-1 friendly.
• Collaborate with engineering to encode methodology into DietaryAI and determine where automation is trustworthy.
• Set QA processes and confidence thresholds to ensure accuracy before client-facing output.
• Define how nutrition data stays current as menus, recipes, and inventories change.
• Ensure outputs comply with FDA labeling rules and state allergen disclosures, including CA SB-68.
• Support onboarding with clients when recipe data is messy; guide right choices.

Skills

RD/RDN credential

Nutrition analysis

FDA labeling understanding

Data analysis

Team leadership

AI interest

Education

RD/RDN credential or nutrition/food science degree

Tools

Genesis R&D

Nutritionix

ESHA

SQL

Python

Job description

Foodini seeks a Lead Nutritionist to oversee nutrition calculation and guide our dietitians. You will define standards behind nutrition-based menu attributes and work with engineering to implement methods in DietaryAI.

You will ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance while guiding client onboarding and industry discussions. The role emphasizes managing scale, data at menu level, and aligning with GLP-1 protein and other nutrition trends.