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R&D Executive — Product Development
R&D / Food TechnologyKodur, ChengalpattuFull-time1–3 years
Run our development bench — take a brief from a food brand and turn it into a formulation that survives the line.
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Kaflur Foods develops and manufactures for other people's food brands. A client arrives with a target — a dip that must hold on a shelf, a fortified cereal that must meet a nutrition claim, a gravy that must taste identical in batch forty as in batch one — and we take it from brief to a specification that production can hold.
In this role you will own our development bench end to end: running your own trials, making the formulation calls, and working directly with the founder on every brief.
You will work in our own laboratory at the Chengalpattu plant, with the production line in the same building. That proximity is the point — you will see your formulation scale up, and you will be there when it does not, which is where the real learning in this field happens.
The role is hands-on rather than supervisory, and deliberately broad. Within your first year you will work across dips, gravies, seasonings, marinades and dehydrates, spanning formulation, nutrition, labelling and sensory evaluation — building range that a more narrowly defined R&D function would take considerably longer to offer.
What you'll do
- Translate client briefs into formulations, and take them through bench trials to a specification production can hold
- Cost every formulation as you build it, so what you develop is something the client can actually sell
- Run scale-up trials with the production team, and solve what breaks between the bench and the line
- Compute nutrition and prepare FSSAI-compliant label copy for the products you develop
- Plan and run sensory evaluation, and read the panel honestly rather than for the answer you hoped for
- Keep formulation records, versions and trial data in order — our R&D system is already built for it
- Work directly with clients on technical questions during development
What we're looking for
- M.Tech, M.Sc or B.Tech in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering or a related discipline
- 1–3 years in product development or R&D within food manufacturing — FMCG, contract manufacturing or a food startup
- Hands-on bench experience: you have formulated something yourself and taken it through trials
- Working knowledge of FSSAI labelling and nutrition requirements
- An evidence-led habit — you reach for a measurement before an opinion
- Comfortable owning a brief end to end with support rather than supervision
Applications close on 30 October 2026.
Our Values
- Quality without compromise
- Evidence over opinion
- Speed with intention
- Honesty at every level
Based In
Chennai–Pondicherry Highway, Tamil Nadu
India
Home to our plant, lab and lines.
Response Time
Within 1 week
We review every application personally and reach out to candidates who are a strong match.
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