Lab Technician, Fragrance Manufacturing

Who we are at Osmo:

Osmo is a digital olfaction company, on a mission to give computers a sense of smell to improve the health and wellbeing of human life. Why? Our sense of smell both enriches and saves lives, and has a deep and direct connection to our emotions and memory. This foundational understanding of smell's impact has directly informed the development of our latest innovation: Generation.

Generation is a new kind of fragrance house powered by Olfactory Intelligence (OI) to blend AI with world-class perfumery. It will help brands create emotionally resonant scents faster, more accessibly, and with greater creative clarity. Our technology allows us to explore vast scent possibilities, discover novel ingredients, and design fragrances informed by both data and artistry.

Beyond fragrance, Olfactory Intelligence has applications across industries including manufacturing, security, medicine, and more. We believe in the power of automation and thoughtfully applied AI/ML to solve problems beyond the reach of human intuition alone. Osmo is headquartered in New York, NY, with a new facility in New Jersey, and offices in Somerville, MA.

Osmo is seeking a Lab Technician, Fragrance Manufacturing to join our team. You will play a crucial role in supporting all Osmo's pipelines from AI and compound discovery to perfumery. You are a good communicator, detail oriented with experience in a laboratory setting. Your responsibilities include accurately weighing, measuring, and blending raw materials to produce fragrance formulations, organization of our chemical compound inventory, adhering to stringent safety protocols, and assisting with packing and shipping tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Fragrance or Flavor Compounding: Accurately measure, weigh, and mix raw materials and essential oils according to formulas and batch sheets. Precision and understanding of certain raw materials characteristics will be key to a successful compounder.

• Equipment Operation & Maintenance: Operate and clean mixing tanks, scales, pumps, and other production equipment while following standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• Safety & Compliance: Ability to follow all company safety protocols, including handling hazardous materials and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is a requirement for this role.

• Inventory Management: Assist in monitoring raw material stock levels and notify supervisors of any shortages or issues.

• Collaboration: Work closely with quality control and production teams to ensure consistency and efficiency in the fragrance compounding process.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 2-5 years experience in fragrance or flavor compounding is strongly preferred.

• Extreme attention to detail and accuracy when measuring, weighing, and blending raw materials.

• Ability to follow written formulas and instructions precisely.

• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.

Ways to stand out

• Understand the order of addition for certain raw materials and the reasons behind it.

• Ability to distinguish fragrance notes.

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and more.

If this role inspires you we'd encourage you to apply. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining an incredible team optimized for a diversity of thought, background, and approaches. All employment decisions and responsibilities are determined based on current ability and your ability to grow, without regard to race, color, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, marital status, physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Osmo does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Osmo or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Osmo Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Osmo and Osmo will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.