About Cana:

Cana is a consumer electronics company based in the SF Bay Area. We are a team of scientists, engineers, product managers and designers building products that redefine the future of food and beverage. Our first product will greatly reduce the environmental impact of beverages by changing how the world's most popular drinks are created, distributed and consumed. We are not building an incremental improvement over existing products, but rather completely reimagining how food is made to bring forward a better and more sustainable future.

If you are excited by the idea of working with a passionate team solving big challenges by bringing together the best of hardware, software and chemistry innovation, we want to hear from you!

Cana is committed to creating a workplace where you feel valued and can do your best work. We welcome candidates with backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in tech and hope you apply, even if the role below does not exactly describe you.

Chemical Engineer - Molecular Beverage Printer

As a Formulation Chemist, you'll be a key stakeholder in hands on development of the technology and lead the team that will own the translation of flavor formulations into scalable formulas, and you will have a direct impact on the success and the growth of the company. Working together makes us and our product better, and you'll work closely with the Engineering, Flavor Chemistry, and Sensory teams collaborating to improve the stability of our product. We're building a category-defining experience that stands to make a huge positive environmental impact—that takes hard work, empathy, and a whole lot of teamwork.

About the Role:

• Act as a multifaceted expert and experimentalist - determining physical chemistry properties to support development of complex ingredient mixtures for use in the Cana molecular printer.
• Collaborate across across the Science R&D team to translate research beverage and flavor formulations into scalable ingredients that are high performing and stable in the Cana cartridge system
• Work with the Engineering to scale ingredients and formulations into the molecular printer for testing
• Work with Manufacturing to provide guidance on ingredient and formulation specifications

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and operationalize testing a program for solubility, chemical stability, viscosity and other physical chemistry parameters to optimize formulations used within the Cana hardware device.
• Support integration of chemical formulations into the Cana hardware device - collaborating with the engineering team on development of small-scale fluidics including the areas of material compatibility, chemical stability and physical chemical properties impacting flow or mixing.
• Partner with the Engineering and Manufacturing team to scale ingredients and formulations onto manufacturing lines.
• Identify and partner with contract or internal manufacturing for scale up of any novel ingredients in the Cana portfolio

About You

• Ph.D, in Chemistry , Chemical Engineering or related field with at least 5-7 years of experience in formulation or process chemistry
• Strong project management skills
• Extensive experience with inventing complex liquid formulations consumer, industrial or pharmaceutical products
• Experience with food and/or beverage ingredients
• Demonstrated ability to set up and operationalize experimental programs to support core R&D in complex, cross functional chemistry projects.
• Deep understanding of chemical stability, fluid flow, physical/chemical properties of fluids, material/chemical compatibility
• Bonus points if you have experience with products that combine small scale fluidics (uL, mL) with electro/mechanical systems such as 3D printers, biomedical devices, or research devices used in biotechnology

Location

Emeryville

Cana offers highly competitive salaries and benefits, including medical and dental insurance, paid time off, and 401(k)

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We are not able to sponsor individuals for employment visas for this job. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. This position is based in our Emeryville, CA location - there is no relocation assistance offered at this time.