Downstream Processing Internship

**We hire on a rolling basis**

Note: the project has a duration of 6-7 months, where 7 months are preferred. The start date is from August-September 2025. We only place current students that need to do a mandatory internship for university.

Mission

Our mission is to decouple protein production from agricultural land and create an era of food abundance for humanity. We use natural fermentation and a renewable-energy based feedstock to produce amino acid complete protein ingredients. While practically all fermentation methods up till now relied on sugars - which are derived from crops grown on agricultural land - we based our fermentation platform on an easily storable and shippable liquid feedstock which can be made from the air with just renewable energy. This allows us to bypass the inefficiency of photosynthesis and break free of its limiting constraints.

Team

We're a small, highly technical team with diverse background (Vegetarian Butcher, DSM, Noma) from all over the world. Our brewery, R&D, test kitchen and offices are all integrated under a single roof, optimised for high speed iteration.

The internship

At Farmless, we're offering an exciting internship opportunity where you help shape the future of food production. In this role you will help develop the recovery process of our protein at both bench and pilot scales. During this internship you will work closely with our experienced team of fermentation and food scientists.

Responsibilities

As an intern at Farmless, your core responsibilities include:

• Optimise downstream recovery at pilot scale.

• Support weekly production operations - upstream and downstream.

• Set up protocols to investigate and improve processes.

• Improve and automate processes.

• Translate bench scale experiments to pilot scale applications.

• Analyse our protein with various analytical methods.

Requirements

We're looking for candidates with:

• A background in food technology, (bio)process technology, process engineering and/or chemical engineering

• Capable of working in bench, pilot and data documentation.

• Team player with excellent English proficiency.

• We only hire interns that need to do a mandatory internship for university.

• Internship duration of 6-7 months.

• Starting period from August - September, 2025.

What you can expect from Farmless

• €1200 gross internship compensation

• Pushing forward the frontiers of food production

• Free healthy vegan lunches, snacks, and drinks

• Work in a diverse, international and dynamic team

About Farmless

Farmless was founded in 2022 by Adnan Oner. Within two years we have successfully validated the full fermentation to fork process. In the fall of 2024 we moved into a single building that houses R&D, pilot brewery, food application, professional kitchen and offices. Our focus is now on scaling the process by order of magnitude steps and getting to regulatory approval in our most important markets.

We’re based within the city ring of Amsterdam – for a reason. We want to attract the best people from around the world and believe that Amsterdam is a great place to settle – and bike to work. On top of that, the Netherlands is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. The Dutch have a mindset to push the boundaries of food production and have the practical expertise to scale up our fermentation platform.

We believe that hardware startups can thrive in Europe, which has the toughest novel foods procedure of the world. When we can make it here, we can make it anywhere. (Also, we want Europe to accelerate.)

We’ve raised €6 million in total with top tier investors including World Fund, Vorwerk Ventures, Revent and Nucleus.