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**The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.** is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

Position Overview

The Upstream Innovation Engineer will play a pivotal role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing next-generation processing and filling technologies that enable new product forms, textures, and manufacturing capabilities for The Estée Lauder Companies. This role combines conceptual innovation with hands-on engineering, supporting the journey from early idea to proof of manufacturing.

Working closely with senior technical leaders, the Engineer will explore emerging technologies across compounding, mixing, and filling—bridging the gap between R&D concepts and scalable, efficient manufacturing solutions that deliver breakthrough product experiences.

The role requires a balance between strategic, conceptual thinking and practical, hands-on execution—ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in the lab and pilot environment as much as identifying and developing new innovation technologies.

Technology Scouting & Evaluation

• Identify and monitor emerging processing and filling technologies that can redefine how beauty products are produced.

• Collaborate with cross-functional and external partners to assess feasibility, scalability, and alignment with Estée Lauder’s innovation strategy.

• Lead early-stage evaluations and technical trials to determine the potential of new processes to deliver differentiated product forms and sensorial experiences.

Proof of Concept & Process Development

• Design and conduct proof-of-concept and pilot-scale trials to validate new processing and filling technologies, ensuring product texture, stability, and quality.

• Translate laboratory learnings into process parameters and engineering documentation that support scale-up and manufacturing readiness.

• Partner with R&D, Process Development, Packaging, Engineering Innovation, and Equipment Suppliers to build prototypes and define process design criteria for new formulations, formats, and manufacturing approaches.

Actively perform hands-on setup, assembly, operation, and troubleshooting of pilot units and processes.

Implementation, Scale-Up & Internal Partnership

• Support the end-to-end innovation process—from technology scouting through proof of manufacturing.

• Partner closely with internal engineering and manufacturing teams to translate upstream innovation into agile, cost-effective, and scalable process and filling solutions.

• Collaborate on process design, equipment integration, automation, and controls to ensure manufacturability and repeatability.

• Develop detailed process documentation, risk assessments, and technical guidelines to ensure robust implementation and knowledge transfer.

Collaboration & Culture

• Work directly with the Executive Fellow and Executive Director to shape Estée Lauder’s upstream innovation agenda in processing and filling technologies.

• Contribute to the collaborative, “can-do” culture of the new Long Island Engineering Center—a hub for technical creativity, rapid experimentation, and applied innovation.

• Communicate findings, recommendations, and technology roadmaps to leadership and cross-functional partners.

Why Join Us

Join a world-class team in Estée Lauder’s state-of-the-art Engineering Center on Long Island, where innovation meets craftsmanship. You’ll explore the frontiers of processing and filling technologies to unlock new product textures, sensorial experiences, and manufacturing capabilities, while collaborating across R&D, formulation, engineering, and supply chain teams to deliver innovative, efficient, and transformative solutions that shape the future of beauty manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in process development, manufacturing technology, or innovation engineering, ideally within cosmetics, consumer goods, food, or pharmaceuticals.

• Strong understanding of process fundamentals: mixing, emulsification, rheology, filling dynamics, heat/mass transfer, and scale-up.

• Demonstrated ability to balance conceptual design and hands-on technical execution, including operation and assembly of lab and pilot-scale processing systems.

• Experience with unit operations, process control, and troubleshooting in a laboratory or pilot plant environment.

• Proven experience collaborating with R&D, formulation, supply chain, and engineering teams to develop agile, cost-effective, and scalable process solutions.

• Curiosity-driven and creative thinker passionate about emerging technologies, new product forms, and novel sensorial experiences.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is **$80,000.00** **to** **$80,000.00** **.** Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].

**Michigan Applicants:** Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.

**Philadelphia Applicants:** Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law (https://www.phila.gov/media/20240326142036/V6-Fireball-Handout-fairchance-E-S.pdf)

**Rhode Island Applicants:** The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].