BrewBase Software Internship; year round

Role

Farmless is building the protein breweries of tomorrow. Breweries that are up to 5000× more land-efficient than animal or plant proteins. Within a few years, we’ll be running our first commercial-scale factories, producing thousands of tonnes of protein to help feed millions while freeing land for rewilding.

To run these facilities, we've developed Brew Base
: our in-house operating system that connects everything from fermentation to final food product.

Brew Base tackles a question most biotech and food companies avoid: how do you manage complex fermentations at scale? Instead of patching together SCADA systems, LIMS tools, and spreadsheets, we’re building a single platform that connects biology and software, enabling real-time monitoring, automated data flows, and intelligent control.

This internship offers a rare opportunity to build core infrastructure for a new industry. You’ll work at the intersection of software, biology, and automation. And you’ll own high-impact projects that shape how the next generation of food is made.

Depending on your background and interests, you might work on:

• Data Engineering & Automation

  • Build automated analysis pipelines in Python

  • Connect lab instruments and sensors directly to Brew Base

  • Design ETL workflows that turn raw data into insights

• Real-Time Monitoring & Visualisation

  • Create dashboards for live fermentation monitoring

  • Build tools that spot trends and anomalies at a glance

  • Make complex biological processes readable and intuitive

• Industrial Systems & Automation

  • Bridge the gap between OT and IT systems

  • Expand Brew Base into a full SCADA platform

  • Enable two-way communication with PLCs and control equipment

• Intelligence & Optimisation

  • Apply machine learning to fermentation modelling

  • Build soft sensors that infer hidden process parameters

  • Prototype LLM-based tools for experiment design and troubleshooting

• Food Product Development

  • Develop tools for recipe management and sensory data tracking

  • Connect formulations with functionality and application results

Current stack: Postgres, React, Type Script, shadcn, Python (and plenty of room for your input).

We look for builders. You’re hungry to learn, unafraid to break things, figure out how fast you can really learn and are curious about everything that makes complex systems work. You’ll need:

• Full Stack Skills
  :
  Proficiency in Type Script/JavaScript, React, and modern web frameworks. Comfortable working across frontend and backend.

• Database Knowledge
  :
  Experience with SQL and understanding of database design principles.

• Builder Mentality
  :
  You've built projects beyond coursework. Personal projects, open source contributions, hackathon wins. Show us what you've made.

• Fast Learner
  :
  Excited to dive into unfamiliar domains like fermentation biology, industrial automation, and food science.

• Mission Driven
  :
  Our goal of revolutionizing food production genuinely excites you.

• Python for data analysis and automation

• Time-series databases and data visualization (Grafana, Plotly, D3.js)

• Machine learning and data science techniques

• Systems programming languages (C++ or Rust)

• Industrial protocols (OPC UA, Modbus) or SCADA systems

• Experience with hardware or embedded systems

• Biology, chemistry, or food science background

• Previous startup experience

• Shipped production features used daily by our fermentation and food science teams

• Mastered the full stack
  , from frontend to automation systems

• Built novel infrastructure that doesn’t exist anywhere else

• Learned deeply about fermentation, bioprocessing, and food production, domains few software engineers ever encounter

• A flat, fast, and curious team working on one of the most exciting challenges in food

• An international, high-talent, low-ego culture where ideas matter more than titles

• Room to grow into whatever version of the role you make yours

• Daily plant-based lunch, snacks, fruits, drinks

• In house gym & regular team sport activities

• Fun off sites & team drinks

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…