Sr. Process Engineer, Commercialization & Scale-Up

COMPANY 🌱 RYZE was founded in 2019 by Andrée Werner and Rashad Hossain, out of a parents' basement, with a mission to change daily health, starting with the morning routine: a nutrient-dense mushroom coffee delivering clean energy, mental clarity, and immune support. Built on a Direct-to-Consumer foundation with a performance marketing engine, RYZE achieved hockey-stick growth and a community of over 1 million active subscribers. DTC remains the foundation, but RYZE has expanded into mass retail, quickly becoming the #2 items in Target's overall coffee category and is now executing a multi-channel expansion, with a cross-category launch coming in early 2027. RYZE is uniquely positioned to redefine how people think about daily wellness. We’re a lean, fast-moving, mission-driven team who believe daily rituals create the foundation for living your greatest life, and we’re just getting started! ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES This role exists to engineer the process side of every formula that moves toward production — translating a bench-top “gold standard” into a repeatable, equipment-specific process that holds up at full manufacturing scale. This person owns how a formula is made: the mixing sequence, shear, time/temperature, blend order, and equipment parameters that make it reproducible on a tumble blender, ribbon blender, or V-blender, and everything in between. This is a new position, created because our fastest-growing need is process engineering rigor — someone who can take a formula’s process requirements, prove them out through trial and first production, and translate them cleanly onto whatever equipment a given co-manufacturer runs. The ideal person thinks like a process/manufacturing engineer first, comfortable working closely with formulation partners, and grounded enough in plant-floor reality to know what actually happens on the equipment versus on paper. WHAT YOU'LL DO 🎯 Responsibilities will include: Process Engineering & Scale-Up (Primary Focus) Own the process-engineering translation of new formulas from bench-top “gold standard” samples through plant trials, first production runs, and continuous improvement Engage early on new formulations, before they’re finalized, to engineer for manufacturability from the start and flag equipment or process mismatches before they become a rework problem. Partner with the formulation team to determine whether a site-specific process standard is warranted when equipment differences make an exact process match to the master gold standard impractical, and document the engineering rationale. Build and maintain process documentation (process flows, critical parameters, equipment specs) that lets a formula’s process transfer cleanly between sites. Stay attached to a formula’s process through its handoff into steady-state production, acting as the process-continuity link to the SKU and site rather than dropping it once it’s running. Partner with New Product Launch teams during…