Careers

We are a team with a strong scientific focus who want to make a real difference and revolutionise the food industry. The journey ahead requires more talented people who believe that there’s no such thing as an impossible challenge.

All Solar Foods’ open positions can be found below. If the job you are looking for cannot be found, you can fill out our open application and let us know that you are interested in working for us.

Open positions

Automation & Maintenance Specialist
Apply until date: March 31, 2026
Where: Vantaa, Finland

We are looking for a solution-oriented Automation & Maintenance Specialist to join our growing team! You will have a key role in keeping our production systems up and running at Factory 01, our first commercial-scale Solein production facility in Vehkala, Vantaa.

In this role, your work will focus on planned, systematic functional improvements to the production process. You troubleshoot and maintain our automation system and production control logic to keep our Factory 01 running safely and reliably in close collaboration with our Production and Maintenance teams. You also perform hands-on maintenance on process equipment and wide variety of different instruments. In addition to working closely with our internal teams, you collaborate with external partners to plan work, share learnings and deliver fixes.

Do you want to be a part of our ambitious growth journey? Read more and apply here! In this recruitment process, we are supported by Academic Work. We encourage you to act quickly, as our selection process is ongoing and the job ad may close early if we proceed to the next stage.

Our culture

Responsible

The reason for Solar Foods’ existence surpasses profit. Solar Foods is for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all.

Science-based

Solar Foods’ targets are remarkable, yet achievable. We are selling a worldview that is evidence-based and transparent.

Revolutionary

Solar Foods is for progress. Progress comes through challenging the status quo and paving the way to where you believe the future should be.

We believe in possibilism

The facts about how the world stands with population growth, environmental breakdown, and the climate crisis – are undeniable. It is the right of ordinary people to demand better solutions, the responsibility of scientists, engineers and business to come up with them, and the obligation of decision-makers to embrace those new solutions and bring them to fruition.

Solar Foods is a revolutionary game-changer. We have created a solution for industrial scale protein production that is carbon neutral and liberates it from the shackles of agriculture, thereby changing the course of human development.

That sums up our mentality: possibilism. The world needs better answers to the burning questions around our food system. If we are determined enough, finding the solutions is possible.