Dairy Applications Scientist (Dairy Enzymes)

Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA; on-site with approximately 20–50% domestic travel and occasional international travel

Company

hirify.global develops flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health and bioscience solutions for food, healthcare, consumer, and industrial markets.

What you will do

• Lead projects covering technical sales support, customer trials, troubleshooting, training, and dairy enzyme application development.
• Design and execute laboratory, pilot, and commercial-scale experiments to evaluate enzyme activity, functionality, stability, texture, flavor, and shelf-life impact.
• Develop and optimize dairy formulations using enzyme solutions aligned with customer needs, processing requirements, and performance targets.
• Provide hands-on technical support to customers and distributors, using compositional, rheological, and performance-based analytical techniques.
• Translate customer challenges, product data, and market insights into opportunities for dairy enzyme innovation.
• Collaborate with R&D, marketing, product management, regulatory, and global application teams, and deliver presentations, reports, demonstrations, and industry-event contributions.

Requirements

• Master’s or Doctorate degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of dairy chemistry, enzyme functionality, dairy processing, and product formulation.
• Hands-on laboratory and pilot plant experience in dairy applications, including products such as yogurt, cheese, UHT milk, cream cheese, buttermilk, and sour cream.
• Experience with analytical techniques for assessing enzyme performance, including HPLC-based analysis where applicable.
• Ability to manage independent and cross-functional projects, interpret analytical results, solve technical problems, and translate findings into practical dairy solutions.
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Nice to have

• Industry experience in yogurt or high-protein beverage manufacturing.
• Familiarity with dairy enzymes, enzyme application strategies, and analytical approaches for product and process optimization.
• An established network within the dairy or food science community.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global organization focused on innovation, creativity, and sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate with diverse, cross-functional teams on customer-focused projects.
• Gain exposure to technologies in dairy applications and biosciences.
• Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional growth.