The role
At Farmless we’re going beyond the limits of photosynthesis, to unlock a food system that can rewild back our planet. Your job? Make it incredibly tasty.
Your role is to develop the most delicious and nutritious food products using our protein. You’ll work at the intersection of fermentation and harvest, to enhance our functional and sensory performance. This means combining creativity with a deep technical understanding of how our protein behaves across conditions and formulations. Your mission: showcase what our protein can do, powerful enough to win over partners, delight consumers and drive commercial traction.
Responsibilities
Develop and test many formulations across multiple categories
Characterise ingredient functionalities and link them to fermentation & harvest conditions
Optimise sensory performance: taste, texture, colour and smell
Translate customer needs into convincing products
Stay ahead of trends, benchmark competitors, and shape our product roadmap
Organize tasty product demos to potential partners
Develop sensory analytics and train internal panelists
Requirements
At least 2 years of relevant working experience
A Bachelor/Master in Food Technology or similar education
Broad knowledge in formulation of different food products
Hands-on experience with ingredient functionality characterisation techniques and data documentation
Team player with excellent written/spoken English
Bonus points
Restaurant/Culinary/Chef experience (you know how to make things taste amazing)
Experience with fermentation or downstream processing
Experience with B2B technical sales
Experience with deep data analysis
Rewards
A flat, fast, and ambitious team working on one of the most exciting challenges in food
An international, high-talent, low-ego culture where ideas matter more than titles
Daily plant-based lunch, snacks, fruits, drinks
Fun off sites & team drinks
In house gym & regular team sport activities
Room to grow into whatever version of the role you make yours
We offer relocation help (visum + relocation fee)
What we’re building
We’re going beyond the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.
We use natural fermentation to turn simple ingredients into complex proteins. It’s what we've been doing for millennia with wine, beer, bread and yoghurt.
Yet most fermentations rely on sugars - which are derived from crops grown on agricultural land. Our fermentation platform relies on an easily storable and shippable renewable energy based feedstock. This allows us to break free from the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.
What we are building is the spiritual successor to the Haber-Bosch process. While Haber-Bosch led to cheap synthetic fertilizer which currently feeds half of humanity, we have found a way to produce amino acid complete proteins up to ±5000X more land efficient than animals. By rough approximation this could multiply the carrying capacity of the earth by an order of magnitude. The result of our ambition should be visible from space.
About us
We’re a small, highly technical and deeply curious team with deep food and fermentation expertise with backgrounds from the Vegetarian Butcher, Perfect Day to Noma and many more.
We’re flat and interdisciplinary by design. We value autonomy, speed, and ambition. You’ll have the freedom to build, and the responsibility to do it well.
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 hardware startups can thrive in Europe. If we can get approval here, we can do it anywhere (and we want Europe to accelerate).
We’ve raised €9M from world-class investors including World Fund, Vorwerk Ventures, Revent, and Nucleus Capital, and European and national grants.