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# Manager, Quality Control at Osmo

- **Company:** Osmo
- **Location:** Elizabeth, NJ
- **Compensation:** $67k–$81k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/osmo/bf9f30e6-725b-47bc-9882-32dcada871a0/application

**Skills:** GCMS systems, Quality control testing, Laboratory documentation, GMP standards, Safety standards, Fragrance QC testing practices, Physical evaluations, Chemical evaluations, Sensory evaluations

> The Quality Control Technician performs routine quality control analyses on fragrance raw materials, intermediates, and finished products. The role involves documenting results, assisting with deviation processing, and ensuring compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements to maintain product qual...

## 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.

## About the Role

Osmo has no QC team today. You're building it. You'll own quality on both ends of the plant, raw materials coming in and finished fragrance going out, using real fragrance-industry judgment that automated testing alone can't provide. You'll have the autonomy to build the program end to end and the trust to make real-time calls from day one.

## What You'll Do

- Own Raw Material Quality — Judge incoming material results from automated testing, deciding when an out-of-spec reading is a real defect versus normal variation in a natural material.
- Apply Trained Olfactive Judgment — Evaluate raw materials and finished goods using sensory training the equipment can't replicate.
- Protect Finished Goods Quality — Run triangulation testing on outgoing product to confirm it matches prior batches before it reaches a customer.
- Build the QC Program — Design and continuously improve the process, documentation, and systems this function runs on, picking up from groundwork already laid.
- Make the Call — Decide accept or reject in real time, multiple times a day, escalating only genuinely ambiguous cases.
- Fix What's Broken — Spot gaps in the current process and drive the fix, rather than operating inside a system someone else already defined.
- Partner Across the Floor — Work directly with Purchasing, Warehouse, Shipping and Receiving, Fragrance Development, and the internal AI team on raw material and finished goods decisions.

## Who You Are

- 5+ Years in Fragrance QC — Direct fragrance industry experience required; adjacent industries like flavor, cosmetics, or specialty chemicals don't clear the bar here. 8 to 12 years is ideal.
- A Builder, Not Just an Operator — You've stood up or fixed a QC process before, not only executed inside one someone else built.
- Trained Nose — Sensory and olfactive evaluation skill specific to fragrance raw materials and finished goods.
- Independent Decision-Maker — Comfortable making high-frequency accept or reject calls without over-escalating routine judgment.
- Direct Communicator — Low-bureaucracy, thrives in a fast-moving, still-being-built environment.
- Technical Degree Preferred — Bachelor's in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent hands-on experience accepted in place of a degree.
- On Site in Elizabeth, NJ — In the plant 5 days a week.

## What We Offer (Full Time Roles Only)

- Ground-Floor Ownership — Build a quality function from the foundation up, not maintain someone else's finished system.
- Real Growth Path — Room to grow into a Director of QC role as Osmo scales to multiple sites, with potential to grow the function into a broader quality department.
- Catered Lunch Mon/Wed/Fri; New Jersey and Brooklyn shuttles
- 401(k) Savings Plan and employer match
- Competitive Salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
- PTO and paid family leave
- Commuter Benefits

What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months) Establish a real, working quality QC program from a process and systems standpoint, building on the groundwork already started. Qualify raw materials at scale. Get product to customers cleanly and consistently, without holds or rejections after the fact. 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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