FOOD SAFETY AND THERMAL PROCESSING CONSULTANT

<p></p> <p><strong>🔥 Food Safety Meets Smart Kitchen Tech — Short-Term Consulting Opportunity 🔥</strong></p> <p><strong>Food Safety &amp; Thermal Processing Consultant (Contract)</strong><br>Remote | Flexible Schedule | 10–40 Hours | Potential for Ongoing Advisory Work</p> <p>CHEF iQ (the connected kitchen brand from Chefman) is building something genuinely new: a smart cooking feature that uses real-time temperature data and cumulative lethality modeling to tell home cooks, with real science behind it, when their chicken, beef, or pork has actually hit safe-to-eat targets. Not a single magic number. Real time-temperature science, done right.</p> <p>We've got the product vision. What we need now is you: a food scientist or food microbiologist who can look at our math and tell us where we're right, where we're wrong, and where we need a disclaimer before this ever reaches a customer's kitchen.</p> <p><strong>What you'd actually be doing:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sanity-checking our cumulative lethality and time-temperature models against real science</li> <li>Telling us what log reduction targets actually make sense for poultry, beef, and pork (ground and intact)</li> <li>Digging into our D-values, z-values, and whether carryover cooking can legitimately count toward safety</li> <li>Reviewing the exact words we want to put in front of customers ("Safe to Eat," "Pasteurized," etc.) and making sure we're not writing checks the science can't cash</li> <li>Helping us figure out what's ready for launch, and what needs more work first</li> </ul> <p><strong>You'd be a great fit if you:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Have an advanced degree in Food Science, Food Microbiology, Meat Science, or Thermal Processing</li> <li>Know USDA-FSIS Appendix A and FDA Food Code like the back of your hand</li> <li>Can talk Salmonella and E. coli lethality kinetics without blinking</li> <li>Have real HACCP experience and understand meat/poultry manufacturing</li> <li>Can translate dense food science into language a home cook (and our legal team) will actually understand</li> <li>Have done consulting or product advisory work before, and know how to give a straight, evidence-based recommendation</li> </ul> <p><strong>The deal:</strong><br>Short-term, remote, flexible. We're talking 10 to 40 hours total, on your schedule, with real potential to keep working together if it's a good fit on both sides.</p> <p>If you've ever wanted to help make sure "done" and "actually safe" mean the same thing on a home cook's dinner table, we'd love to hear from you.</p> <p>📩 Interested? Reach out to [contact info] with your background and availability.</p> <p></p>