Not agtech. Not farming software. We read and interpret the biology of a continent — then extend it to every surface where life must grow. From African soil to lunar habitat. We are hiring exceptional weirdos with unbeatable aura across engineering, science, brand, operations, and community.
We are building the intelligence layer that reads the biology of an entire continent. Not a product for a market — an infrastructure for a civilization. The agronomy, plant genomics, microbiome science, and crop resilience protocols built on African smallholder farms are the same disciplines that will keep humans alive in vertical farms, desert greenhouses, lunar habitats, and Mars surface operations. The applications run far beyond agriculture: medicine, longevity, cosmetics, biomaterials, space life-support. Biology is the substrate. The science starts here. Everything else follows.
Most of them unstudied. Indigenous biological strategies refined over millennia. Compounds that could reshape medicine, nutrition, and human longevity. We are building the first system to catalogue, understand, and study them — all of them.
Every farm that joins makes the biological map sharper. Every harvest deepens the models. The protocols built on East African highlands today become the closed-loop life-support systems of tomorrow — on any surface, in any environment.
The biological questions space demands are the questions we answer now. From sensors at 1,800 meters in the Rwenzori highlands to controlled environments beyond the atmosphere. What works here will work anywhere humans sustain life.
The signal
We hire artists. Thinkers. Outsiders.
Creatives. Dancers. Historians. Literature graduates who never stopped reading. People obsessed with Ottoman architecture, Byzantine mosaics, the history of salt as a currency. People who know the difference between a washed Yirgacheffe and a natural Geisha. Architects of rabbit holes. People who collect references like others collect rent. People who carry a frequency you feel before you understand.
We hire the obsessed. The passionate. The strange ones who walk into a room and something shifts.
At Watoko, we are a room where a fashion designer sits next to a food anthropologist, a dancer debates a philosopher, and someone is always going too deep into a rabbit hole nobody asked them to go into. We drink specialty coffee like it's a religion. We have taste — in music, in food, in ideas, in people.
We are the kind of group you want to be in.
We hire for signal. For taste. For instinct. For the thing that cannot be taught.
In the age of AI, the scarcest resource is not intelligence.
It is aliveness.
Culture fit here does not mean sameness. It does not mean you went to the right school, read the right books, or speak the right industry language.
It means you carry something.
It means when you walk in, something moves. A current. A recognition. The electricity between two people who are both, in their own different ways, awake.
The weirder, the better. The more alive, the better. The more you, the better.
One condition.
Aura without substance is performance. Strangeness without commitment is cosplay.
We are building something serious. Something meant to outlast us. Something real, in one of the hardest industries, in some of the most demanding environments on Earth — and engineered, from day one, for the environments off Earth where life has never yet lived.
We need people who are fully alive and fully committed. Not one or the other. Both.
We need people who want to make history. Not the kind that gets you a LinkedIn badge. The kind that gets written down. The kind that changes what comes after.
At Watoko, we are weird. We are free. We live expansively, authentically, obsessively. We are not building a company.
We are living — out loud, on purpose, without apology.
And what we are building runs deeper than product, deeper than market, deeper than category.
We are working at the intersection of biology and planetary systems — the invisible architecture that feeds the world, the soil and seed and microbiome and climate that connect every form of life to the place it grows. Food is the doorway. Biology is the room. The places life will eventually live — from the most punishing environments on Earth to lunar habitats to Mars — are what we are building toward. We believe this is the most important infrastructure project of our generation. And we believe the people who build it will be the ones strange enough, alive enough, and serious enough to see what others cannot.
Watoko has aura.
Do you?
Write to us →We don't have departments. We have multiplication. Every person here operates at a scale that would require fifty anywhere else — not through effort, but through an absolute refusal to work the way everyone else works. AI is not our tool. AI is our architecture.
We are not a different company that happens to build differently. We are a different species of company entirely. Our product can be replicated. The culture that produced it cannot. The taste that shaped it cannot. You cannot.
This is not a startup. This is an infrastructure project on the scale of Apollo — built by people who believe turning Earth's deepest biology into the food, the science, and the intelligence for better human life is a reasonable thing to build before breakfast.
Open positions
We are assembling a founding team to read and interpret the biology of a continent. Every role reports to the CEO. Every role shapes the company.
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From soil sensors to orbital biology — you will architect the full arc. 63+ autonomous AI agents. Edge computing on LoRaWAN networks. Satellite integration. Offline-first infrastructure that works where no other software reaches. The biological models you build for African smallholder farms will adapt to vertical farms, desert greenhouses, and controlled-environment life-support on the Moon and Mars. This is not a CTO role where you manage an existing stack. You are building the stack — the intelligence layer that reads biology at continental scale.
You are building the human infrastructure of a planetary network. The Watoko Fellowship deploys agricultural ambassadors across 5 continents, embedded in the communities the platform serves. You will build the selection process, manage regional chapters in East Africa, West Africa, Latin America, and South & Southeast Asia, and turn a fellowship into the largest distributed agricultural intelligence network on earth. The people you recruit become the eyes, ears, and voice of a system that reaches where technology alone cannot.
You are building a cult brand, not a corporate identity. Watoko is not an agtech company with a brand. Watoko IS a brand — a visual identity, a voice, a movement that people feel before they understand. You own every surface: the website, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok. Vertical documentary series shot in the field. The Watoko Tour — a cultural production across agricultural communities on 3 continents. You are making Watoko the most recognized biology brand on earth. What Apple built for personal computing, what Patagonia built for the outdoors — you build for the biological frontier.
65,000 plant species. Most of them unstudied. You translate decades of crop science, soil health, and field experience into the intelligence that reads biology across an entire continent — and eventually beyond it. The agronomic models you build draw from indigenous biological strategies refined over millions of years of evolution, and soil microbiomes that no pharmaceutical or cosmetics company has studied. From farm to pharmacy to formulation lab — the compounds hidden in these species will reshape medicine, nutrition, longevity, and materials science. The same models that optimize yields on smallholder farms in Kenya will inform closed-loop biology for controlled environments on the Moon and Mars. Your knowledge becomes the intelligence that sustains life.
You are building the operational playbook for the largest agricultural infrastructure deployment in history. You put sensors in the ground, install solar-powered gateways, onboard cooperatives, and make the impossible logistics of continental-scale deployment look inevitable. Field operations is the hardest job at Watoko — and the most real. If the technology does not reach the field, the biology stays unread. You are the person who makes it reach the field, across countries and conditions that break every assumption.
You are the institutional architect — the person who turns a company into an institution. Watoko operates at the intersection of technology, biology, international development, and frontier science. You build and manage the institutional architecture: DFIs, multilateral organizations, foundations, government agencies, and research institutions. You write the proposals that win. You build the partnerships that go beyond funding — joint research programs, data-sharing agreements, policy influence, scientific collaboration. You shape policy, direct capital, and build the rails that an entire continent's biological future runs on.
You are the voice of Watoko on social media. You create content from field visits, manage community channels, write posts that capture what this work feels like from the inside. You work directly with the Brand & Creative Director.
You are on the ground. You support sensor deployments, onboard cooperatives, collect data, and coordinate logistics across field sites. This role is physical, challenging, and the closest you can get to the mission. You work directly with the Head of Operations.
You work with the data that feeds the biological intelligence layer. Cleaning, processing, analyzing, and documenting datasets — from field sensors to genomic records — that power every AI agent on the platform. You work directly with the Labs team and the Head of Agronomy.
Write to us. Not a cover letter — a signal. Tell us what you see, what you carry, what you'd build if no one told you it was impossible.
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