Highland hires carefully for a small, serious team. Every role at Highland is on-site at our Marion, North Carolina facility. We do not currently support remote work. Candidates must be willing to live within commuting distance of Marion, or relocate, before the start date.
Highland is a 60,000 square foot cGMP-certified production facility that grows, dries, extracts, and packages standardized, lab-verified nutraceutical ingredients. The work is procedural, exacting, and consequential — every batch becomes part of a customer's formulation and, downstream, part of a consumer's daily routine. We hire people who take that seriously.
The team is small. The procedures are documented. The standards are pharmaceutical-grade. The people who do well here are unflashy professionals who care that things are done correctly, the same way, every day, and who notice when something is off before anyone else does.
Lead analytical work in Highland's UHPLC laboratory — owning the testing program that backs every certification, every lot, and every quality decision. Degreed chemist with hands-on instrument experience, method validation depth, and the discipline to run a cGMP-compliant analytical operation. The chemistry of every batch we ship passes through this role.
Salaried position. Compensation is dependent on experience and credentials.
Highland is hiring an Analytical Chemist to lead the analytical work in our UHPLC laboratory. This is a senior, hands-on role responsible for the testing program that supports every certification we hold and every lot we ship. The chemist owns method development and validation, runs the day-to-day analytical workload, generates Certificates of Analysis, and serves as Highland's technical point of contact during third-party audits. The position is suited to a degreed chemist who is rigorous, methodical, and serious about analytical work performed to pharmaceutical-grade standards.
On-site at Highland's Marion, North Carolina facility. This role requires relocation to the Marion area before the start date.
Apply for this role →Hands-on analytical work in Highland's UHPLC laboratory — sample preparation, instrument operation, compound assay, and quality verification on every lot. Background in analytical chemistry, microbiology, or mycology preferred. Mycological experience is a plus. Comfortable with documented procedures, lot traceability, and the discipline of pharmaceutical-grade work.
Starting pay $22.00–$35.00 per hour, depending on experience.
Highland is hiring an experienced Lab Technician to support its culture lab, where high-quality medicinal mushroom cultures are cultivated, maintained, and transferred for production. This is a hands-on, sterile-process role in support of Highland's research, development, and quality verification work. The position is suited to candidates who are precise, detail-oriented, and serious about applying scientific practice to a production environment.
On-site at Highland's Marion, North Carolina facility. This role requires relocation to the Marion area before the start date.
Apply for this role →Cross-functional production roles supporting the full process — substrate preparation, inoculation, cultivation, harvest, drying, extraction, packaging, and shipping. Open to candidates with backgrounds in cGMP manufacturing, food production, agriculture, or related procedural environments. Reliability, attention to detail, and willingness to learn each stage matter more than a specific résumé.
Starting pay $18.00 per hour, with opportunity for advancement based on demonstrated capability.
Highland is hiring Production Staff to support hands-on factory work across the full production process. This is physical, procedural work — lifting, mixing, carrying, and operating equipment in support of the team that grows, steams, dries, processes, and packages Highland's product. The position is suited to candidates who are reliable, take pride in physical work done correctly, and are willing to learn each stage of a serious production operation.
On-site at Highland's Marion, North Carolina facility. This role requires relocation to the Marion area before the start date.
Apply for this role →Highland accepts inquiries from candidates whose backgrounds match the work above, regardless of whether a specific opening is posted. If your experience fits and we don't have an active role, we will keep your information on file for when one opens.
Email your resume and a short note about what you're looking for, why Highland interests you, and your availability for an on-site role in Marion. We read every inquiry and will be in touch when there is a fit.
hello@highlandmushrooms.com →Highland is committed to hiring practices that are fair, lawful, and consistent with the standards we apply to the rest of our operation. The following applies to every role at the company.