Downstream Processing Internship (all year round)

Farmless; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 13,392; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

€1200 gross internship compensation

Free healthy vegan lunches, snacks and drinks

Work in a diverse, international and dynamic team

Job summary

A leading food innovation company in Amsterdam seeks an intern for downstream processing. Requirements include pursuing an M.Sc. in food technology or related fields and a commitment to a mandatory internship. You will optimize production processes and support operations in a dynamic, diverse team. The internship offers €1200 gross compensation, extensive learning opportunities, and a chance to contribute to pioneering food production methods.

Qualifications

• Capable of working in bench, pilot, and data documentation.
• Must need a mandatory internship for university.
• Internship duration of 6-7 months is required.

Responsibilities

• Optimise downstream recovery at pilot scale.
• Support weekly downstream production operations.
• Develop and routinely perform analytical methods.

Skills

Excellent English proficiency

Team player

Bench and pilot work capability

Education

Students working toward an M.Sc. or equivalent

Background in food technology or chemical engineering

Job description

Downstream Processing Internship

We hire on a rolling basis

Note: the project has a duration of 6-7 months, where 7 months are preferred. Anticipated start date is 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 base 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

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Responsibilities

• Optimise downstream recovery at pilot scale.
• Support weekly downstream production operations.
• Set up protocols to investigate and improve processes.
• Translate bench‑scale experiments to pilot‑scale applications.
• Develop and routinely perform analytical methods.

Requirements

• Students working toward an M.Sc. or equivalent, 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 a mandatory internship for university.
• Internship duration of 6‑7 months.
• Starting period from September‑October 2025.

What You Can Expect From Farml

• €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 Farml

Farml 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 in 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.