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# Applications Lab Associate at Osmo

- **Company:** Osmo
- **Location:** Elizabeth, NJ
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/osmo/eef63f4f-5142-4924-bc2d-272f219a1d6a

## Job description

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. Olfactory Intelligence has applications across industries including fragrance, 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.

We're headquartered in Elizabeth, NJ, with an additional office in Somerville, MA. We provide complimentary shuttle service from Brooklyn and Newark, NJ. Osmo is seeking a Lab Associate to join our expanding Applications Lab Operations team. We are seeking an highly organized and detail oriented Laboratory Technician to support our growing R&D operations. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands on laboratory work , thrives in a fast paced environment, and is committed to maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and workflow efficiency.

## Key Responsibilities

- Prepare application samples and solutions to support testing, experimentation, and project objectives.
- Organize and maintain chemical inventory, ensuring accurate records and availability of required materials for daily sample preparation.
- Maintain laboratory equipment and manage supply inventory, including proactive ordering of chemicals and consumables.
- Follow strict chemical safety protocols for handling, storage, and disposal to ensure a safe wok environment.
- Operate liquid-handling instruments to prepare mixtures, formulas, and test samples with precision.
- Collaborate with testing teams and the Lab Manager to maintain workflow, anticipate daily priorities, and support ongoing projects.
- Ensure adherence to procedures, documentation standards, and quality expectations.
- Multitask and problem solve effectively while meeting project deadlines in both independent and team based settings.
- Support additional lab duties as assigned, contributing to a safe, organized, and efficient laboratory environment.

Required Qualifications

- A Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of chemical safety protocols and safe laboratory practices.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and adapt to changing project needs.

Ways to stand out

- Fragrance industry experience.
- Experience in a high-throughput lab environment.

Salary Range: $65,000 - $85,000 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.

For all Full-Time Employees, compensation is just one component of Osmo’s total rewards approach, which is designed to support the well-being, growth, and long-term success of our team members. Depending on the role, this may include base salary or contract-based pay, along with access to health, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match; flexible paid time off and company holidays; and equity or incentive compensation for eligible roles. Actual compensation will vary based on factors such as experience, skills, location, internal equity, and other relevant business considerations. Osmo regularly reviews pay ranges and compensation structures to ensure they remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with current market data. 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.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire

## About Osmo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Osmo digitizes the sense of smell using AI and machine learning to design and analyze fragrances for human health and happiness.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; raised $70M in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Alex Wiltschko (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Olfactory intelligence, fragrance development, AI-powered scent technology.
- **Target customers**: Global CPG companies, independent fragrance brands, and product developers (B2B).
- **Mission**: “Digitizing the sense of smell, for human health and happiness.”

## Products & Services
- **Olfactory Intelligence (OI) Platform**: An AI system that can read, write, map, and digitize scent. Uses molecular data and machine learning to predict odor perception and design novel fragrance ingredients. (SaaS / AI platform)
- **Scent Teleportation**: A process that captures and digitizes the scent of a real object (e.g., a plum) and recreates it as an identical fragrance – demonstrated in 2024. (Technology / service)
- **AI-Powered Fragrance House**: Launched in 2025, the world’s first fully AI-driven fragrance house, giving independent and growing brands access to advanced fragrance development once reserved for large conglomerates. (Service / product)
- **Fragrance Ingredient Discovery**: Patented new fragrance ingredients; in March 2025 Osmo filed more patents for new fragrance ingredients than the rest of the industry combined. (R&D / IP)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $133.5M (Series A $60M + Series B $70M, per CB Insights).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Lux Capital, GV, The Alexa Fund; research partnership with the Gates Foundation; board includes Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize in Physics, “Godfather of Deep Learning”).
- **Growth Signals**: Grew to >100 employees; built a 58,000 sq ft manufacturing and R&D facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey; launched first AI-powered fragrance house; filed industry-leading patent volumes; Scent Teleportation proof-of-concept.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Olfactory Intelligence platform** that can predict scent from molecular structure (validated in a 2023 *Science* paper).
- **World-class perfumery team** including master perfumers (Christophe Laudamiel, Thomas Fachon, Zerlina Dubois) combined with AI/ML expertise.
- **Patent moat**: In 2025, Osmo filed more patents for new fragrance ingredients than the rest of the industry combined.
- **Exclusive access to computational olfactory models** from years of research at Google Brain.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale AI-driven fragrance creation for CPG partners and independent brands.
- Continue expanding the Olfactory Intelligence platform for health and wellness applications (e.g., Gates Foundation partnership for ingredient discovery).
- Digitize additional scents and move toward full scent teleportation and digital scent transmission.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Kindness as a strength”; team of neuroscientists, master perfumers, and engineers committed to diversity of thought. Hires are described as people who “raise the standard for everyone around them.”
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/on-site roles; manufacturing and R&D facilities in Elizabeth, NJ, plus a New York City headquarters. Open positions listed as full-time, part-time, and “Technical Evaluation” tracks.
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Work on frontier AI/ML technology applied to a new sensory domain; collaborate with Nobel laureates (Geoffrey Hinton on board); opportunities to shape the future of digital olfaction.
- **Open roles** (as of mid-2026): Software, Manufacturing, Analytical Chemistry, IT, Marketing, Commercial Sales, People Operations, Lab Operations, and more. Expanding quickly.

## Sources
1. [osmo.ai/about](https://www.osmo.ai/about)
2. [osmo.ai/](https://www.osmo.ai/)
3. [careers - osmo.ai](https://www.osmo.ai/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/osmo](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/osmo)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/osmo-1](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/osmo-1)

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