Technical Founder's Associate

Technical Founder’s Associate

Barcelona | Full-time | On-site

• !! Fluent Spanish is a must !!

KULT FARM develops new protein foods through mycelium solid-state fermentation technology. We are a venture-backed food-tech startup building sustainable alternatives without compromising on taste, texture, or price.

Our mission 🍄 is to foster the world’s transition to a sustainable food system- without asking consumers to compromise on taste, texture, or price.

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Founder’s Associate to work directly with our Co-founder and CTO.

Role & Responsabilites

• Support our co-founder and CTO across multiple projects of very diverse nature, including
• Support fermentation optimisation, pilot production, and process scale-up.
• Develop prototypes and support sensory evaluation.
• Analyse technical and operational data, and prepare reports.
• Coordinate projects with laboratories, suppliers, co-manufacturers, and research partners.
• Implement AI tools and support grants, investor materials, project management, and administrative work.

Personality

• Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and able to take ownership of ambiguous problems.
• Comfortable with changing priorities in an early-stage startup.
• Hands-on, practical, and comfortable working across lab, pilot production, office, and external projects.
• A strong communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curious, scientifically rigorous, and willing to challenge assumptions constructively.

Qualifications

Required

• Completed master’s degree in Food Science, Biotechnology, Biology, Microbiology, Chemical, Industrial or Biochemical Engineering, or a related field.
• !! Fluent Spanish and professional English is a must !!
• Ability to work full-time, on-site in Barcelona.

Desirable

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in fermentation, mycelium, solid-state fermentation, alternative proteins, or food development.
• Experience in pilot-scale production, manufacturing, process optimisation, or scale-up.
• Familiarity with food safety, HACCP, quality systems, microbiology, analytical methods, grants, technical writing, or startup environments.

Why join Kult Farm?

• Work directly with the Co-founder and CTO on high-impact technical and company-building priorities.
• Take meaningful ownership across R&D, scale-up, operations, partnerships, and strategy.
• Help create a new category of food based on mycelium and natural fermentation.
• Build products that can make the food system more sustainable—without asking people to compromise on eating experience.
• Join an ambitious, venture-backed startup at an early stage and grow with the company.

Apply Here!

https://kultfarm.notion.site/Technical-Founder-s-Associate-3d6012e0c0f380c7b917cdead82c292d