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Product Safety Engineers qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship under the specialty occupation standard, which requires a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, materials science, or a directly related field. Employers in consumer electronics, medical devices, and industrial manufacturing file H-1B petitions regularly for this role, with the annual cap opening each April 1.
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At Melaleuca, our mission has remained constant: To Enhance the Lives of Those We Touch by Helping People Reach Their Goals.
For 40 years, we’ve built a business around wellness, developing and manufacturing effective, high-quality products designed to be safer for families, homes, and the environment. Today, Melaleuca offers more than 400 wellness products across nutrition, personal care, beauty, and home care, serving millions of customers around the world.
Our continued growth creates an exciting opportunity for a Scientist focused on Product Safety to join our Research & Development team at our Global Headquarters in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Position Summary
As a Scientist – Product Safety, you will apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to help ensure the safety of Melaleuca’s ingredients and products throughout their lifecycle.
Working closely with Product Safety leadership and partners across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical Research, and other technical teams, you’ll evaluate scientific evidence, assess consumer exposure, identify potential risks, and translate complex science into clear, practical recommendations that support product innovation and consumer safety.
What You’ll Do
- Assess Product Safety: Conduct safety assessments of ingredients, formulations, and finished products using toxicological data, scientific literature, exposure information, and other relevant evidence.
- Evaluate Risk & Exposure: Apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to characterize hazards, evaluate consumer exposure, and determine safe conditions of use.
- Interpret the Science: Search and critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data, applying weight-of-evidence approaches to identify data gaps and develop scientifically sound conclusions.
- Enable Product Innovation: Partner with formulators and product development teams to identify safety considerations early, recommend appropriate testing or risk mitigation, and help advance safe products from concept through commercialization.
- Support Post-Market Safety: Evaluate adverse events, product complaints, and emerging scientific issues to identify potential safety signals and support appropriate follow-up.
- Communicate with Impact: Prepare clear, scientifically defensible safety documentation and translate complex technical findings into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.
What You Bring
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Toxicology, Pharmacology, Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, or a closely related scientific discipline.
- Ph.D. with 0–3 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 2–5 years of experience in toxicology, product safety, human health risk assessment, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in toxicology, including the relationship between hazard, dose, exposure, and risk.
- Ability to critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data and develop evidence-based conclusions.
- Strong scientific writing, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced product development environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consumer products, personal care/cosmetics, household products, dietary supplements, food, pharmaceuticals, or related industries.
- Experience conducting ingredient, formulation, or finished-product safety assessments and exposure assessments.
- Familiarity with modern safety assessment approaches such as weight-of-evidence, read-across, TTC, in silico methods, NAMs, or other relevant approaches.
- Familiarity with U.S. and international consumer product safety requirements and guidance, including MoCRA, EU cosmetic requirements/SCCS guidance, or California Proposition 65.
- Experience evaluating adverse events or other post-market safety information.
Why Melaleuca
- An Award-Winning Company. A Place to Build Your Career. Forbes ranked Melaleuca the #2 Best Brand for Value in America, second only to Costco and ahead of thousands of the nation’s most recognized brands. We have also been named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time, recognized on TIME’s America’s Best Midsize Companies list, and honored by USA TODAY as one of America’s Most Trusted Brands and America’s Best Stores. These independent recognitions reflect the culture we’ve built, the trust we’ve earned, and our unwavering commitment to helping people reach their goals.
- Exceptional Benefits. Designed Around Our Team Members. In addition to a competitive salary, Melaleuca offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time Team Members that includes traditional benefits along with unique advantages such as a longevity bonus. On-site amenities include a fitness center, concierge services, and an employee restaurant—all designed to support your health, well-being, and long-term success.
- A Better Place to Live. A Better Way to Work. Located in the heart of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls offers the rare combination of safety, affordability, and opportunity. It’s a vibrant, family-friendly community where outdoor recreation is part of everyday life. With the Snake River flowing through town, the Rocky Mountains nearby, and Yellowstone National Park less than two hours away, you’ll enjoy an active lifestyle while benefiting from a lower cost of living, shorter commutes, and a strong sense of community.
Build Your Career. Improve Your Life.
- Make a Meaningful Impact. Apply your scientific expertise to real-world safety questions across a diverse portfolio of consumer products used by millions of customers. Your work will help protect consumers, guide product development, and enable innovation.
- Build Broad Scientific Expertise. Few Product Safety roles offer exposure to such a diverse range of products. Work across nutrition, personal care, beauty, and home care while expanding your expertise in applied toxicology, exposure assessment, human health risk assessment, and consumer product safety.
- Take the Next Step. If you’re ready to build your career with a company where science, product innovation, and consumer safety come together, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and discover why thousands of Team Members have chosen to build their careers—and their lives—at Melaleuca.
This position is based onsite at Melaleuca’s Global Headquarters in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ability to work onsite or relocate to Idaho Falls is required.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Scientist - Product Safety
At Melaleuca, our mission has remained constant: To Enhance the Lives of Those We Touch by Helping People Reach Their Goals.
For 40 years, we’ve built a business around wellness, developing and manufacturing effective, high-quality products designed to be safer for families, homes, and the environment. Today, Melaleuca offers more than 400 wellness products across nutrition, personal care, beauty, and home care, serving millions of customers around the world.
Our continued growth creates an exciting opportunity for a Scientist focused on Product Safety to join our Research & Development team at our Global Headquarters in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Position Summary
As a Scientist – Product Safety, you will apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to help ensure the safety of Melaleuca’s ingredients and products throughout their lifecycle.
Working closely with Product Safety leadership and partners across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical Research, and other technical teams, you’ll evaluate scientific evidence, assess consumer exposure, identify potential risks, and translate complex science into clear, practical recommendations that support product innovation and consumer safety.
What You’ll Do
- Assess Product Safety: Conduct safety assessments of ingredients, formulations, and finished products using toxicological data, scientific literature, exposure information, and other relevant evidence.
- Evaluate Risk & Exposure: Apply toxicology and human health risk assessment principles to characterize hazards, evaluate consumer exposure, and determine safe conditions of use.
- Interpret the Science: Search and critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data, applying weight-of-evidence approaches to identify data gaps and develop scientifically sound conclusions.
- Enable Product Innovation: Partner with formulators and product development teams to identify safety considerations early, recommend appropriate testing or risk mitigation, and help advance safe products from concept through commercialization.
- Support Post-Market Safety: Evaluate adverse events, product complaints, and emerging scientific issues to identify potential safety signals and support appropriate follow-up.
- Communicate with Impact: Prepare clear, scientifically defensible safety documentation and translate complex technical findings into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.
What You Bring
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Toxicology, Pharmacology, Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, or a closely related scientific discipline.
- Ph.D. with 0–3 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 2–5 years of experience in toxicology, product safety, human health risk assessment, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in toxicology, including the relationship between hazard, dose, exposure, and risk.
- Ability to critically evaluate scientific literature and toxicological data and develop evidence-based conclusions.
- Strong scientific writing, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced product development environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consumer products, personal care/cosmetics, household products, dietary supplements, food, pharmaceuticals, or related industries.
- Experience conducting ingredient, formulation, or finished-product safety assessments and exposure assessments.
- Familiarity with modern safety assessment approaches such as weight-of-evidence, read-across, TTC, in silico methods, NAMs, or other relevant approaches.
- Familiarity with U.S. and international consumer product safety requirements and guidance, including MoCRA, EU cosmetic requirements/SCCS guidance, or California Proposition 65.
- Experience evaluating adverse events or other post-market safety information.
Why Melaleuca
- An Award-Winning Company. A Place to Build Your Career. Forbes ranked Melaleuca the #2 Best Brand for Value in America, second only to Costco and ahead of thousands of the nation’s most recognized brands. We have also been named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time, recognized on TIME’s America’s Best Midsize Companies list, and honored by USA TODAY as one of America’s Most Trusted Brands and America’s Best Stores. These independent recognitions reflect the culture we’ve built, the trust we’ve earned, and our unwavering commitment to helping people reach their goals.
- Exceptional Benefits. Designed Around Our Team Members. In addition to a competitive salary, Melaleuca offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time Team Members that includes traditional benefits along with unique advantages such as a longevity bonus. On-site amenities include a fitness center, concierge services, and an employee restaurant—all designed to support your health, well-being, and long-term success.
- A Better Place to Live. A Better Way to Work. Located in the heart of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls offers the rare combination of safety, affordability, and opportunity. It’s a vibrant, family-friendly community where outdoor recreation is part of everyday life. With the Snake River flowing through town, the Rocky Mountains nearby, and Yellowstone National Park less than two hours away, you’ll enjoy an active lifestyle while benefiting from a lower cost of living, shorter commutes, and a strong sense of community.
Build Your Career. Improve Your Life.
- Make a Meaningful Impact. Apply your scientific expertise to real-world safety questions across a diverse portfolio of consumer products used by millions of customers. Your work will help protect consumers, guide product development, and enable innovation.
- Build Broad Scientific Expertise. Few Product Safety roles offer exposure to such a diverse range of products. Work across nutrition, personal care, beauty, and home care while expanding your expertise in applied toxicology, exposure assessment, human health risk assessment, and consumer product safety.
- Take the Next Step. If you’re ready to build your career with a company where science, product innovation, and consumer safety come together, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and discover why thousands of Team Members have chosen to build their careers—and their lives—at Melaleuca.
This position is based onsite at Melaleuca’s Global Headquarters in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ability to work onsite or relocate to Idaho Falls is required.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Product Safety Engineer
Verify your degree satisfies specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to product safety engineering. A degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering typically qualifies. A general business or unrelated science degree may trigger an RFE, so confirm alignment before applying.
Target regulated-industry employers first
Companies in medical devices, automotive, and consumer electronics face mandatory safety compliance obligations under federal agencies like the CPSC and FDA. These employers have established H-1B filing pipelines for safety engineers and are less likely to treat sponsorship as a barrier.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Pull up Product Safety Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to see which employers have active H-1B LCA filing history with DOL. This filters out companies that say they sponsor but rarely follow through, saving you weeks of outreach.
Check prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay the higher of the actual or prevailing wage for your role and location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for your SOC code before the LCA is filed, so you can flag any underpayment risk early.
Understand how product safety maps to O*NET
USCIS adjudicators use O*NET occupation profiles to evaluate specialty occupation status. The O*NET profile for Quality Control Analysts and related safety titles lists a specific education requirement that directly supports your H-1B petition. Know this profile before your employer drafts the support letter.
Time your job search around the H-1B cap cycle
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. If you're on OPT, confirm your OPT end date relative to cap-gap coverage. Roles that start before October 1 require a cap-exempt employer or a change-of-status strategy to bridge the gap.
H-1B Visa Product Safety Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Safety Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, product safety engineering qualifies as a specialty occupation when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, materials science, or a directly related field. USCIS evaluates the specific duties and degree requirements of your role, not just the job title. Employers with vague job descriptions that accept any degree may face an RFE on specialty occupation grounds.
Which industries hire the most H-1B-sponsored Product Safety Engineers?
Medical device manufacturers, consumer electronics companies, automotive suppliers, and industrial equipment producers file the highest volumes of H-1B LCAs for product safety roles. These industries operate under strict federal safety regulations, which creates ongoing demand for qualified safety engineers with specialized credentials. You can browse current openings with verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if I change product safety roles?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer once the transfer petition is filed, without waiting for approval, as long as your existing H-1B has been approved for at least 180 days. Your new employer must file a new I-129 and LCA before your first day in the new role.
How does prevailing wage apply to Product Safety Engineer H-1B petitions?
Your employer must pay the prevailing wage for the product safety engineering occupation in your work location, as determined by the DOL wage level assigned in the LCA. The wage level reflects your experience, complexity of duties, and supervision received. Underpaying relative to the certified LCA wage is a compliance violation that can jeopardize your H-1B status.
What credentials strengthen an H-1B petition for a product safety role?
A Certified Safety Professional designation, Functional Safety Engineer certification under IEC 61508, or a UL product safety certification can reinforce the specialty nature of your role when USCIS evaluates the petition. These credentials signal that the position requires specialized knowledge beyond a generic engineering degree, which supports the specialty occupation argument in your employer's support letter.