Full-Stack Hardware Engineering Intern, Farmless
1K EUR a month
Carbon negative fermentation platform
Be an early applicant
Carbon negative fermentation platform
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
1K EUR a month
1-20 employees
Company mission
To free food production from animals and agricultural land.
Role
Who you are
- You don’t need to know everything yet. But you need to be serious about building
- You study mechanical, mechatronics, or a related field
- You’ve built things outside of uni: projects, machines, electronics, anything real
- You like being in a workshop and working with tools
- You’re comfortable figuring things out without waiting for instructions
- You move fast and learn quickly because you enjoy it
- If you have experience with welding, electronics, or embedded systems, that helps
What the job involves
- We’re looking for someone who builds things
- Not just in CAD, but in the real working systems
- You will own projects from day one
- As an example, our last intern made a custom ultra high temperature device from scratch, designing, sourcing all the parts, building, testing and implementing it
- You’ll work across mechanical design, electrical systems, and basic software
- The goal is simple: take ideas from a blank page to a working machine, fast
- No two weeks are the same. You might:
- Design a custom fermenter component in CAD
- Build a frame in the workshop (grinding, drilling, welding)
- Wire a control cabinet and integrate sensors
- Debug a system that’s not behaving the way it should
- Modify hardware because the first version didn’t work
- This is hands-on engineering. Things break, leak, overheat, or behave unexpectedly. You fix them. The systems you build will run real fermentations
- We’re a small, high-talent-density team. Every person here matters
- We work on site because hardware is built together. You walk to the system, test it, change it, test again. We build from first principles. If “industry standard” slows us down, we rewrite it
- There is real autonomy. The person closest to the problem decides. If something is broken, you fix it
- Speed matters. We build, test, learn, and iterate quickly. Mistakes are fine. Repeating them isn’t
- You’ll get your hands dirty. Workshop, wiring, wet systems, messy setups, that’s part of the job. If you’re looking for a standard 9 to 5 internship, this is not it. Your learning curve is as steep as you can handle it
- Design and build custom components (CAD → fabrication → assembly)
- Work in the workshop: drilling, tapping, grinding, basic machining, welding
- Build and wire electrical systems and control cabinets
- Integrate sensors, actuators, and control logic
- Debug and improve real systems under time pressure
- Help improve how we design and build our hardware
Our take
The climate crisis has heightened the urgency to develop alternative food sources, aiming to protect our planet and efficiently sustain the ever-growing global population. With a new approach to protein production, Farmless seeks to positively change the way we produce food for a better future.
The Dutch startup has developed the means to make a 'carbon negative' protein that requires between 10 to 25 times less agricultural land compared to conventional plant-based protein. Farmless makes its protein using a fermentation platform that utilises a liquid feedstock from renewable energy sources instead of sugar.
Founder Adnan Oner believes Farmless has the potential to end factory farming, revitalising our planet's ecosystem, and mitigate gigatons of carbon emissions. Although this is an ambitious claim, the company's substantial support from a number of investors so early on has propelled Farmless out of stealth mode and into the public eye, and highlights the potential it has to bring significant positive change to the agricultural industry.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$1.2m
GRANT
Dec 2023
$5.6m
SEED
Total funding: $8.2m
Company benefits
- Free healthy vegan lunches, snacks and drinks
- Company provides you with a new macbook
Company HQ
Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Adnan Oner
(Founder)Previously worked as the Head of Product at Tapfiliate and at 30MHz as a Hardware and Software Engineer.
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