Join Our Team

We’re looking for a R&D Chef to be the newest member of a team that is transforming the restaurant industry. At Salted, we’re building the next generation of fast food / fast casual brands all across the country, with a focus on better-for-you cuisine. Our food is gluten-free, clean-label, and plant-driven, but most importantly, highly craveable and delicious - the type of food you want to tell your friends about. If you are detail-oriented, passionate, and want to help shape the culinary program for the brands of tomorrow, then we want to hear from you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

In this position, you’ll be asked to wear many hats, but most fundamentally, you will help drive culinary excellence for our brands across the country.

• Work alongside our Senior R&D Chef to develop new recipes that meet our high standards of quality, nutrition, and scaleability

• Identify opportunities to improve our existing recipes for increased consistency and cost savings

• Collaborate with our Operations team to create training programs that ensure the scaleability and consistency of our recipes

• Collaborate with our Operations team to source ingredients and products necessary for the execution and national scaleability of our recipes

• Conduct regular tastings with our CEO and Brands team that include the presentation of detailed cost and nutritional information

• Participate in the development of recipes intended to become CPG products and produced in third-party co-manufacturing facilities, including shelf-life and yield analysis

• Track and analyze the vast customer feedback and performance data available at Salted and use this data to inform our culinary roadmap

• Maintain the accuracy of our nutrition and food cost databases

• Think outside the box and help us create better-for-you foods that “wow!”

WHO YOU ARE

The ideal candidate is extremely detail oriented, has a deep understanding for the complexities of scaling recipes to hundreds of locations, is comfortable working in a fast-changing environment, and has an unquenchable thirst to create food that impacts millions of people’s lives.

• Highly organized and able to juggle multiple tasks at once

• Skilled problem solver with the ability to research and execute solutions

• Highly creative with a desire to think “outside the box”

• 2+ years experience working in a culinary (restaurants, catering, CPG, R&D) position

• Mastery of foundational culinary skills (knife work, flavor profiles, health and sanitation standards)

• Big plus if you have experience working with gluten-free and plant-based ingredients

• Knowledge of HACCP, SOP’s, and government/industry food safety and quality regulations, codes, and standards

• Ability to collaborate with other departments, proactively identify problems/opportunities, and take ownership of deadlines and deliverables

• Wants to work in an extremely fast paced, data-driven environment with ambitious goals

TO APPLY

Send a resume and short introduction to jobs@hellosalted.com Please include “R&D Chef” in the subject line.