Ready to make a manufacturing process ten times faster — in a year?

Changing the world—one fruit fly at a time.

We've developed a novel insect-based expression platform to enable bio-products across humanity's most critical verticals.

We're unleashing the next biorevolution.

At Future Fields, we are continually learning and evolving. We know we don't have all the answers, but we try to ask all the questions. We believe in "failing forward" and leveraging our mistakes to help us grow. We never want our team to feel constrained by the status quo and we don't judge ideas based on where they come from. We actively work to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and psychological safety through transparency, structure, and open communication. We know it sounds cliché, but every employee really is a valued and equal member of the Future Fields team.

Come find your purpose with Future Fields.

We are a rapidly growing venture-backed startup (with support from awesome investors including Bee Partners, Y Combinator, BDC Climate Tech, R7 Partners, Toyota Ventures and Amplify Capital). We've even had a shoutout from Ironman himself Joining our team now means you'll have the opportunity to shape our culture and products, to lead others, and to influence the direction of our company. Perhaps most importantly, you'll be joining a team that is genuinely energized by this work and the meaningful potential of biotech to change the world.

About the role

We are seeking a hands-on, mechanically-minded Scale-up Technologist to take our midstream manufacturing process from pilot-scale to full production.

Here's the problem. We rear fruit flies at industrial scale and harvest frozen larval biomass.



Midstream processing turns that biomass into a clarified lysate: homogenize, extract the protein, clarify the result. In order to meet our near-term manufacturing demands, our biomass processing technology stack needs to be roughly ten times faster by next year than it is today. Our current scaled-up lab methods will not get us there.

We are in the middle of selecting the industrial equipment that will get us there. Decanter centrifugation, filter pressing, high-shear homogenization, continuous flocculation and depth filtration are all in play. Your job starts where the purchase order ends. You will commission that equipment, debug it against the genuinely difficult material we actually run, climb the rate curve, and build the process and documentation that makes it repeatable.

One thing to understand about the shape of this work: midstream today runs as a small number of large production campaigns rather than continuous daily manufacturing. That means long stretches of building, testing and improving, punctuated by high-stakes runs where everything has to work the first time, from a cold start, with no daily rhythm to fall back on. For the right person, that's the good version of this job—real time to fix things properly, and a clear moment of truth to fix them for.

This is not a role where you inherit a working line and maintain it. You will inherit machines,



a stubborn feedstock, a hard deadline, and a lot of latitude.

Reporting to our VP of Technical Operations, Erik, you'll work most closely with Brian, our Senior Engineer, and Muhammad, who leads downstream process development. You will train the operators who run the equipment during campaigns, and you'll be the technical authority they come to when something doesn't behave. We are a small team by design: there is no maintenance department to escalate to, no project manager to write your schedule, and no set of as-built drawings waiting for you. If that sounds like an obstacle, this isn't your role. If it sounds like freedom, keep reading.

We do not need you to be a biologist. We have those. We need someone who has moved solids and liquids at industrial rates and knows what actually breaks.

This role will own

Commissioning and startup

- Take delivery of current extraction and clarification equipment, run installation and site acceptance, and get it producing on real material—not water trials.
- Design and execute the shakedown testing that tells us whether the equipment does what the vendor said it does, and escalate loudly and early when it doesn't.
- Own the vendor relationship through startup: hold them to their performance claims, and get their application specialists working your problem.

Rate and yield

- Drive midstream throughput by roughly ten-fold, while holding product quality and protein yield.
- Run structured optimization rather than trial and error: mass balance the process, find where yield and time are actually being lost, and fix things in priority order.
- Own the numbers. Ever

📌 Biomanufacturing Homogenization and Clarification Specialist (Edmonton)
🏢 Future Fields
📍 Edmonton