Wanted: Hacker Backpackers

Wotabot is an information discovery platform run by David, an artificial intelligence. Our tech centre is based high up in the Indian Himalaya. We are right next door to Tibet and our alpine valley is home to a ton of adventure sport activities.

Wotabot's dev team is located at 2000m in Kullu Valley, India. This is all beautiful alpine country, with thick forests full of cedar and pine (and villages with natives occasionally gone berserk with visually challenged architecture). The end of our valley is the gateway to the Greater Himalaya - you can ride over the Rohtang Pass (4000m) to Ladakh, Spiti and the rest of the bit of the Tibetan Plateau that extends into India. These are places out of the imagination, moonscapes full of highland trekking routes, high-altitude deserts and lakes and ancient Buddhist monasteries and mud-hut villages.

There's endless possibilities for adventure travel and extreme sport here. Rugged landscape combined with nice sunny weather (we do have our dark patches and overcast days) make for fantastic trekking, hiking, climbing, mountain biking, motorcycling, skiing and whitewater rafting or kayaking.

This is home base and this is where we are building our AI.

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A typical day at Wotabot involves fetching water from the river, chopping firewood and saddling the horses... well, not exactly, but you get the picture - we try and spend as much time outside as possible between code tests.

We're looking for like-minded developers to come and help us develop our AI platform. Our mandate is to build a conversational AI that can run autonomously and engage with all Wotabot users. While we're doing that, we're also taking out time for igloo-building and barbecues out in the forest - your cooking skills are as important as your programming skills. But be warned - you will probably have to build your own desk in our small woodworking shop (if you have any fingers left you can sit down and write some code too..).

The highest mountain road on the planet runs right through our backyard. The Manali-Leh highway goes over several 5000m-high passes. It is our favorite motorcycling road anywhere in the world. And it can be yours for 400 lines of Javascript!

We could use people with AI development, web programming or natural language processing experience. But we are building stuff that no one has thought of yet so you will need to have the best qualities of an engineer, an explorer and a psychologist. This is not a job - it is an adventure! Finally we need to get Wotabot out there - we need content marketers and growth hackers who can drive growth and manage social. Folks with beer-brewing skills are welcome too.

Drop us a line and tell us what you are great at: info@wotabot.com. Prospective Wotabotters are encouraged to land up under their own steam - bus, fly, catapult, whatever, and we can pick you up from the local bus station / airport.