Customer Innovation Technical Service Intern, Texture & Healthful Solutions

About Ingredion

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create. Location: Bridgewater, NJ Workplace type: Hybrid We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious student to join our team for summer 2027! As the Customer Innovation Technical Service Intern, you will support new product development and creating customer valued solutions within the Savory category including sauces and dressing applications. You will be responsible for developing/preparing food formulations and prototypes for various customer and business initiatives on a lab bench top scale utilizing Good Manufacturing Practices. You will perform research related duties as needed or assigned, execute on analytical testing, gather insights, as well as document and prepare technical reports with guidance from manager.

What you will do

Conduct searches on current technology including competitive activity on related projects, and summarizing the outcomes in appropriate report. Develop food formulations and prototypes on lab scale and conduct team tastings to gather feedback and determine next steps and/or iterations. Conduct analysis on prototypes using various analytical tools and interpret results. Coordinate, summarize and report data generated from these experiments. Present results and conclusions to management with recommendations at completion of internship period.

What you will bring

Progress towards a Bachelor's degree in Food Science, biochemistry, Food or