Senior Expert Head Of Food Process Engineering

About KULT FARM

KULT FARM makes a true and natural alternative to meat from mycelium solid state fermentation. As a venture-backed business we are pioneering this approach.

Our mission is to foster the worlds transition to a sustainable food system- without asking consumers to compromise on taste texture or price.

Our planet cannot sustain our current food system; therefore we believe in producing exceptional alternative products to remove the current strain on our environment and ensure food security for our future ever-growing population.

This is your opportunity to have an impact on our planet and experience a startup in its earliest days.

Translate our mycelium-based production from pilot-scale to industrial-grade manufacturing. Your primary responsibility is to design validate and implement scalable production processes ensuring that our Solid-State Fermentation (SSF) upstream and downstream processing (DSP) can operate reliably at commercial scale.

You will work hands-on with our pilot plant team upgrade current processes to industrial and build the technical backbone required for scalingwhether executed internally or via selected external partners. External manufacturing and supply chain design are part of your scope but always derived from a deep understanding of process requirements equipment constraints and production economics.

This is not a pure management role. We are looking for an engineer who has personally scaled processes and facilities and who can translate first-of-a-kind systems into industrial reality.

Key responsibilities

Pilot plant optimization & engineering development

• Actively participate in machine selection and installation.
• Support to run scale-up trials including process validation and data generation for industrial transfer.
• Support to amend process documentation (SOPs PFDs P&IDs scale-up reports).

Scale-Up

• Scale-up of upstream fermentation and downstream processes from pilot plant to industrial scale
• Identify scale-up risks (heat transfer contamination heterogeneity etc.) and design mitigation strategies.

Industrial Strategy & Facility Design

• Contribute to FOAK facility design including capacity planning and modular expansion concepts.
• Support capex planning and equipment sourcing decisions based on process requirements.

External Manufacturing

• Identify and technically evaluate co-manufacturers where relevant.
• Translate Kult Farm processes into partner-compatible production setups.
• Support industrial trials and process transfer to external facilities.
• Ensure partners meet technical and process fidelity requirements.

Supply Chain Design (Process-Driven)

• Design a supply chain aligned with process needs (raw materials substrates packaging).
• Collaborate on logistics storage and production planning tied to process constraints.

• Degree in food engineering bioprocess engineering chemical engineering or similar
• 8 years in the food industry with direct involvement in process scale-up and industrial production incl. set up of production lines
• Proven experience scaling food production from NPD pilot industrial scale; ideally in fermentation-based systems (e.g. yogurt cheese tempeh salami or similar).
• Hands-on experience designing or commissioning production lines or facilities; not purely managerial.
• Well-connected across equipment suppliers engineering firms and production experts; able to unlock solutions quickly.
• Comfortable working in early-stage ambiguous environments and turning incomplete data into actionable engineering decisions.
• Spanish at B2 to C1 level is strongly beneficiery

Why join

• You will work in a cross-disciplinary Production team with food technologists biotechnologists microbiologists engineers at a cutting-edge technology.
• Trans-disciplinarity at its peak: we believe invention only happens when you connect dots that are seemingly far apart.
• A high-impact ambitious startup environment with the ability to learn and grow alongside the company
• The opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology and make a true impact on the environment and our food system
• A fun flexible and rewarding environment where you can have the ability to thrive as a person

Excited to work with us

Thank you for your interest in joining us. We hope to meet you soon!

*Application should be in English!

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*We encourage you to apply even if you feel you do not match all criteria perfectly. Many thanks!