Associate Scientist

Join a team shaping the future of coffee innovation. As an Associate Scientist on the Future Coffee Systems team, you’ll turn ideas into reality, taking concepts from benchtop to pilot scale to full production. Your work will help deliver exceptional beverages faster, with uncompromising quality.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in advancing Keurig Dr Pepper’s next-generation coffee systems, creating value for consumers, customers, and partners. You will:

• Apply scientific methods and technical expertise to develop coffee formulations that delight consumers
• Drive business success by meeting timelines, cost targets, product requirements, and quality standards

Essential duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Product development of coffee beverages in a new single serve beverage format
• Use product and formulation design principles to develop high quality products efficiently
• Conduct all aspects of product formulation in the lab; sourcing ingredients, roasting and grinding coffee, creating blends, conducting sensory panels and other lab work as necessary
• Maintain detailed record laboratory and formulation work
• Create and maintain product specifications
• Develop rigorous experimental plans to validate technical and sensorial aspects of formulations, and for troubleshooting issues during development and commercialization phases
• Detail orientated
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Partner with various functions of R&D – Sensory, Ingredients, Nutrition, Regulatory, Flavor Technology, Chemistry, Process Engineering, and Technical
• Comply with all requirements related to food safety and quality

• Salary Range: $55,700-81,000
• Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills, and other factors
• Benefits, subject to election and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Paid Time Off (including paid parental leave, vacation, and sick time), 401k with company match, Tuition Reimbursement, and Mileage Reimbursement
• Annual bonus based on performance and eligibility

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific field such as food science, food engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry or similar
• Strong passion for coffee. This individual is a ritualistic consumer of coffee, and is motivated to deliver the best tasting coffee beverages for consumers
• Demonstrate flexibility and resilience in adapting to changing business needs and priorities
• Experience with lab work
• Experience with product formulation a plus
• Understanding of statistical data analysis
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Highly competent in MS Office product suite
• Ability to travel; 25%+ during certain periods of time

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partners brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it!

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an employer of choice, providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~29,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.