We're hiring a Field Engineer Intern in Chennai who is genuinely comfortable sitting on a farm bund with a farmer for an hour and asking positive questions.

What you'd actually be doing:
Running structured farmer surveys and long-form interviews in the field, in the farmer's own language
Travelling to villages in human–wildlife conflict districts across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh - alongside the founder, not sent out alone
Supporting live device demonstrations on real farms: installation, positioning, walking farmers through how it works
Writing up what you heard - honestly, including the parts that contradict what we believed
Mapping the ground reality: crop calendars, conflict seasons, which species, local Forest Department contacts, farmer groups and FPOs

What we need from you:
You must speak and understand at least two of: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam. This is the one hard requirement.



Field research doesn't work through a translator
Prior hands-on experience conducting farmer surveys or field interviews - an internship, an NSS or RAWE programme, a college research project, an NGO stint, an FPO, a KVK. We care that you have actually done it, not where
Based in Chennai, and genuinely willing to travel - multi-day village trips, early mornings, no air conditioning
Able to write clearly in English, because your field notes become our product decisions

A real plus, not a filter:
B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering or Rural Development
RAWE / village-attachment experience
Any practical familiarity with human–wildlife conflict - elephant, wild boar or nilgai crop raiding
A two-wheeler and a licence

📌 Field Engineer Intern Chennai
🏢 Sekrop Innovations
📍 Chennai