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# Contract Sensory Panelist (Fragrance) at Osmo

- **Company:** Osmo
- **Location:** Elizabeth, NJ
- **Compensation:** $30/hr
- **Employment:** part-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/osmo/d5ed5238-2dd0-489e-a3df-a4cbed078c0c/application

**Skills:** Olfactory evaluation, Sensory data annotation, Fragrance stability testing, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology

> Osmo Labs seeks a part-time Contract Sensory Panelistry to generate high-quality sensory data for fragrance models. The role involves active olfactory evaluation, data annotation, and stability testing of fragrance compounds while adhering to strict protocols.

## 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 highly meticulous and olfactively acute individual to join our team as Contract Sensory Panelist (Fragrance). This is a specialized, part-time contract role dedicated exclusively to generating high-quality sensory data that fuels our Olfactory Intelligence models. Successful candidates will utilize their superior sense of smell to characterize the behavior, performance, and stability of fragrance compounds and fragrance formulas, directly contributing to the digitization of scent. We are looking for individuals with a genuine passion for fragrance and a methodical approach to objective evaluation. Contract Details

- Position Type: Part-Time Contract (90 day probationary period at 20 hours with a potential for 30 hours with benefits)
- On-Site Hours: 6 hours per day onsite, 5 days/week but only 4 hours of evaluation with 2 mandatory 30 minute breaks and a 1-hour break.
- Hourly Rate: $30/hour for 4 hours of evaluation
- Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey

## Key Responsibilities

- Dedicated Olfactory Evaluation: Since smelling is an essential function of this role, you will spend a set number of hours per day actively smelling and evaluating fragrance samples in various formats.
- Data Annotation: Generate highly precise, objective sensory data by performing character and intensity annotations based on Osmo’s internal scales and taxonomic lexicon.
- Stability & Performance Testing: Evaluate the evolution of odor profiles over time, measuring fragrance integrity and performance in samples pulled from stability chambers and various application tests.
- Panel Participation & Protocol Adherence: Act as a dedicated, reliable sensory panelist, rigorously following established protocols and maintaining the highest standards of objectivity and focus.
- Training & Calibration: Participate in required training sessions to ensure high alignment with other panelists and consistency across data points.

Required Qualifications

- Proven Olfactory Acuity: Demonstrated ability to reliably perceive, differentiate, and describe nuanced odor characteristics is essential. (Candidates will be required to pass a sensory acuity screening.)
- Focus and Discipline: Proven ability to maintain a high level of concentration and meticulousness during long-duration, repetitive sensory tasks.
- Methodical Approach: A methodical, objective mindset capable of separating personal preference from analytical sensory assessment.
- Aptitude for Learning: Eagerness and ability to quickly learn and apply Osmo’s internal scales, definitions, and complex olfactive taxonomy.
- Reliability: High level of professionalism, reliability, and commitment to the scheduled daily working hours.

Ways to Stand Out

- Passion for Scent: A genuine, deep-seated passion for fragrance or olfactory science.
- Descriptive Vocabulary: Experience articulating sensory perceptions using descriptive language beyond simple hedonic (like/dislike) terms.
- Scientific Interest: Background or strong interest in chemistry, biology, or psychology, providing a basis for understanding how scent functions.

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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