About us:
Based in Berkeley, CA, UPSIDE Foods grows meat, poultry, and seafood directly from real animal cells. These products are not vegan or vegetarian—they are delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals. In doing so, the company aims to address some of the most pressing environmental, animal welfare, and public health challenges, while still giving people the meat they love.
Founded as the world’s first cultivated meat company in 2015, UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has achieved numerous industry-defining milestones, including being the first company to produce multiple species of meat (beef, chicken, and duck) and to sell a cultivated meat product in the United States. The company believes that people shouldn’t have to choose between the foods they love and a thriving planet, and is working to build a better food system with access to delicious, humane, and sustainable meat, poultry, and seafood.
UPSIDE Foods has won various industry awards, including New York Times’ Good Tech Awards, FastCo’s Next Big Thing in Tech and World Changing Ideas Awards, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources. UPSIDE Foods has raised a total of $608 million, including from the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Baillie Gifford, Bill Gates, Cargill, John Doerr, John Mackey, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest, Richard Branson, Softbank, Temasek, Threshold, Tyson Foods, and others.
About this job:
UPSIDE is growing and entering an exciting new period of its history around scale up. The chosen candidate for this Process Reliability Engineer position will execute and initiate optimization of the preventive maintenance program to optimize equipment reliability. This role will be responsible for ensuring our equipment and processes are calibrated in our cutting edge, one of a kind facility in the cultivated meat industry. We’re looking for someone who embraces change and a fast paced environment. The Process Engineering team handles scale up, new technology implementation, troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and process optimization at our EPIC facility. This role will be highly cross functional, dealing with scientists, supply chain, manufacturing, and other engineering departments. Within the team there will be plenty of opportunities to learn about new equipment and processes as well as grow in many different areas.
Responsibilities Include:
- Troubleshooting upstream and downstream equipment operations
- Monitoring and maintaining existing equipment to ensure successful operations
- Maintaining and executing the Preventive Maintenance Program and offer process improvements
- Leading training initiatives on reliability improvements, ensuring operators are up to date and compliance on new processes.
- Supporting a dynamic operations team and building systems with them
- Leading project efforts to support company-wide goals to scale cultivated meat
- Commissioning and validation of new equipment.
About You:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (chemical, biochemical, mechanical) with 5+ years of biotechnology, synthetic biology, or pharmaceutical experience
- Experience in tangential flow (Cross flow) filtration, disc stack centrifuges, decanter centrifuges, HTST units, chromatography, pumps, and/or cell culture bioreactors is a huge plus.
- Excited to learn
- Enjoys fast-paced and complex environments and always striving to make processes and experiences better.
- Comfortable working with medium to large equipment.
Who You’ll Work With:
- This role will partner with multiple technical teams as well as the FDA and USDA regulatory and manufacturing teams.
- The technical teams will range from upstream development, process sciences, manufacturing sciences and technology, quality control, quality assurance, and product development.
- While we expect growth in all functions in the next 1-2 years, this role will most frequently interact with our Manufacturing Ops teams.
Compensation Range: $110,000 - $135,000*
*Pay may vary depending on factors including job-related knowledge and skills.
UPSIDE Benefits!
- Stock options for all full-time incoming team members!
- 90-100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for team members (medical [including HSA and FSA], dental, and vision)
- Pet insurance for your furry family members!
- Unlimited PTO
- Employee Engagement Council
- Company-sponsored learning & development opportunities
UPSIDE Foods is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our company-wide mission is to create a product for everyone, so we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.
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Upside Foods Berkeley, California, USA Office
804 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States, 94710
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