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Product Safety Engineer roles qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension when your degree falls under an eligible CIP code and your employer is enrolled in E-Verify. With up to 36 months of total OPT authorization, you have a real runway to build safety compliance expertise and pursue H-1B visa sponsorship.
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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 STEM OPT Authorization as a Product Safety Engineer
Verify your CIP code before applying
Check that your degree's CIP code appears on the USCIS STEM Designated Degree Program List before you apply. Engineering technology, mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering codes commonly support Product Safety Engineer roles, but your specific program must be listed.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask recruiters directly whether the company is enrolled in E-Verify before your offer stage. An employer who isn't enrolled can't sponsor your STEM OPT extension, regardless of how well you fit the role or how willing they are to hire you.
File your I-983 training plan with precision
Your I-983 must describe concrete safety engineering tasks, not a generic job description. Name the specific standards you'll work with, such as IEC 62368-1 or ISO 13849, and ensure your DSO signs off before your initial OPT period expires.
Target industries with structured compliance functions
Consumer electronics, medical devices, and automotive manufacturers routinely run large safety engineering teams with established E-Verify enrollment and immigration infrastructure. These sectors file LCAs through DOL and typically have HR teams familiar with OPT documentation requirements.
Use Migrate Mate to find E-Verify enrolled employers
Search for Product Safety Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which filters employers by E-Verify enrollment and DOL filing history. This removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that can't legally support your STEM OPT extension.
Understand cap-gap timing before your third year
If your employer files an H-1B petition before your STEM OPT expires and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization through September 30. Plan your H-1B registration timing with your employer's HR team at least six months out.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Safety Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your underlying degree falls under an eligible CIP code on the USCIS STEM Designated Degree Program List. Engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, industrial, and systems engineering commonly qualify. The role itself doesn't determine eligibility, your degree program does. Confirm your CIP code with your DSO before applying for the extension on your I-765.
How do I find Product Safety Engineer employers enrolled in E-Verify?
You can verify E-Verify enrollment by asking the employer directly or by searching the E-Verify employer search tool. Migrate Mate surfaces Product Safety Engineer roles filtered by employers with active DOL filing history, making it faster to identify companies already set up to support STEM OPT students without cold-applying and waiting for HR to confirm enrollment status.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a Product Safety Engineer?
Your I-983 must describe specific learning objectives tied to your STEM degree, not a copy-paste of your job description. For Product Safety Engineer roles, this means naming the regulatory frameworks you'll apply, such as UL standards or CPSC regulations, the testing methodologies involved, and how each responsibility connects to your degree field. Both you and your employer's authorized representative must sign it, and your DSO must receive it before your extension begins.
Can I switch employers during my STEM OPT extension as a Product Safety Engineer?
Yes, but the new employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify, and you must file a new I-983 training plan with your DSO before starting work. USCIS requires you to report the employer change within ten days. If the new company isn't enrolled in E-Verify, you can't legally work there on your STEM OPT extension, even if your EAD card is still valid.
How does cap-gap protection apply if I'm on STEM OPT and my employer files an H-1B petition?
If your STEM OPT EAD expires between April 1 and September 30 and your employer filed a timely H-1B petition on your behalf that was accepted for processing, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30. You don't need a new EAD during this period. USCIS publishes guidance on cap-gap eligibility, and your DSO can provide a cap-gap I-20 to document the extension for your employer's records.