Twelve people building the intelligence layer between biology and planetary systems. From African soil to the edges of what's possible.
The intelligence layer for the planet's most complex biological systems. Not a product for a market — an infrastructure for a civilization. The same models that optimize yields on African smallholder farms today will inform how humanity grows food on Mars. 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 unlock them — all of them.
Every farm that joins makes the network sharper. Every harvest deepens the models. The crop protocols built on East African highlands today become the closed-loop systems of tomorrow — on any surface, in any environment.
The questions space agriculture must answer 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 grow food.
The signal
We hire artists. Thinkers. Outsiders. People obsessed with Ottoman architecture, Byzantine mosaics, the history of salt as a currency. People who read everything, question everything, and carry a frequency you feel before you understand.
We hire for signal. For taste. For instinct. For the thing that cannot be taught.
In the age of AI, the scarcest thing is not intelligence. It is aliveness.
Culture fit here does not mean sameness. It means you carry something. It means when you sit across from us, something happens — a current, a recognition, the electricity of two people who are both, in their different ways, awake.
The weirder the better. The more alive, the better. The more you, the better.
One condition.
The aura is nothing without the substance. The strangeness is nothing without the commitment. We are building something serious — something that will outlast us. We need people who are fully alive and fully committed. Not one or the other. Both.
Watoko has aura. Do you?
Write to us →We don't have departments. We have leverage. 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 — conceived by twelve people who believe the intelligence layer between biology and planetary systems is a reasonable thing to build before breakfast.
Open positions
We are assembling a founding team across engineering, science, brand, operations, and community. Every role reports to the CEO. Every role shapes the company.
From soil sensors to orbital agriculture — you will architect the full arc. 38 autonomous AI agents. Edge computing on LoRaWAN networks. Satellite integration. Offline-first infrastructure that works where no other software reaches. The crop science models you build for African smallholder farms will adapt to vertical farms, desert greenhouses, and controlled-environment agriculture 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 between biology and planetary systems.
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 three continents. You are making Watoko the most followed agricultural 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 powers autonomous agricultural decisions 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 company has studied. From farm to pharmacy — the compounds hidden in these species will change medicine, nutrition, and human longevity. The same models that optimize yields on smallholder farms in Kenya will inform closed-loop agriculture for controlled environments on the Moon and Mars. Your knowledge becomes the intelligence that feeds millions.
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 doesn't reach the field, nothing else matters. 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, agriculture, 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 agricultural 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 intelligence. Cleaning, processing, analyzing, and documenting agricultural datasets 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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