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Research, Quality & Technical Solutions (RQT)
 
 

Join a team where science, Innovation, and customer collaboration come together to create meaningful, future-focused impact. At Ardent Mills, our Research, Quality & Technical Solutions (RQT) teams help transform ideas into innovative, grain-based solutions customers rely on every day. Whether your expertise is in food science, quality, food safety, regulatory affairs, or technical services, you'll have opportunities to solve complex challenges, partner with industry experts, and contribute to innovations that help nourish what's next.

Critical to our success as the premier flour-milling and ingredient company is our state-of-the-art Ardent Mills Innovation Center (AMIC) in Denver, Colorado.

Here, you'll work in a unique environment that brings together pilot flour mills, wheat quality and baking labs, R&D and culinary test kitchens, and customer collaboration spaces, giving you the opportunity to learn from industry experts, innovate with customers, and make an impact from day one.

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Your Opportunity to Form the Future of Food

Our RQT teams are thoughtfully designed to bring out the best in our people. If you are energized by discovery, collaboration and turning technical insight into customer solutions, you will thrive at Ardent Mills. You will be challenged, your ideas will matter, and you will be encouraged to be bold.

  • R&D / Culinary - Turn your innovative ideas to real-world applications. Working alongside food scientists and chefs, you'll help develop new ingredient applications, explore emerging trends, and create solutions that support customer innovation. It's a hands-on environment where science, creativity, and inspiration come together.
  • Wheat Research & Quality - Use your research-based experiences to advance the science behind grain innovation. Based within the AMIC, you'll collaborate with researchers, laboratory professionals, and data specialists to generate Insights that influence business decisions, support customers, and strengthen connections across the grain industry.
  • Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory - Apply your food industry knowledge to drive the standards that support safety, quality, and regulatory excellence across the organization. Partnering with regulatory scientists, microbiologists, and quality professionals, you'll build specialized expertise while helping ensure the integrity of products trusted by customers across North America.
  • Technical Services - Put your technical capabilities into action by helping customers solve challenges and optimize product performance.
  • You'll collaborate closely with internal teams and customers, applying your knowledge of grain-based ingredients and applications to deliver solutions that make a real-world impact.
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Innovation Center

Denver Headquarters is home to one of the Ardent Mills Innovation Centers. The AMIC is a state-of-the-art customer collaboration facility designed to drive product development, grain quality and culinary creativity

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A Quality Focus

Every year, Ardent Mills evaluates the quality of wheat harvested across North American farms to help customers transition from old to new crop.

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