About Signify Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond. At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career. Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. You light the way. More About The Role This is an exciting opportunity for you to light the way as an Indoor Farming Intern at GrowWise at the Signify Foundation. The indoor farming team is a small team dedicated to developing lighting solutions and growth recipes for indoor growers (no natural light) within the Horticulture LED solutions team. Helping growers get the most return and the best quality crop out of their lighting installation is one of our core tasks and research and experiments aimed towards developing detailed growth advise typically encompasses all aspects relevant to plant growth like (obviously) light recipes but also broader climate (temperature, relative humidity and CO2), cropping systems, genetics (often together with plant breeding companies) and irrigation. Whether directly or indirectly, our experiments always aim to help growers find solutions for challenges related to indoor growing and aim to improve yield and reliability often specific for our customers. If you enjoy setting up and executing good quality growth experiments, analysing data and translating these into clear and concise one sliders that can help growers understand the effects of growth factors on yield and quality (shelf life, vitamins and nutrients) while improving your knowledge of high tech horticulture then come and apply for one of our internship vacancies in indoor growing! What You'll Do
Designing a series of indoor growth trials together with your supervisor
Planning and execution of trials: preparing, cleaning, sowing, monitoring, harvesting, collecting data.
Analysing data, writing a report and presenting to peers and colleagues
Supporting in the day to day task of trials of other students and plant specialists.
What We Are Looking For
You are eager to learn about horticulture, technology and plant growth experiments. Especially students with a background in agronomy, applied biology, green house horticulture are welcomed to apply.
Proactive and independent, a good communicator.
Finalizing a Bachelor or Masters in applied biology, greenhouse horticulture, plant sciences or a related field (3rd /4th year)
Available for 4 months or more
Everything we’ll do for you You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 30,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce representing 99 nationalities, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.