Robotics Lead

Telegraph; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Telegraph is building an open, evaluated market for robotics intelligence. The Robotics Lead will bridge robotics providers and consumers, turning technical requirements into actionable Intents and guiding end‑to‑end integrations.

You will collaborate with an engineering team to develop adapters, demos, and real pilots, while shaping demand and roadmap for broader adoption. This is a fully remote, full‑time technical-commercial role.

Qualifications

• Must have a working network in robotics, with leaders at robotics companies who will take your call.
• Hands-on engineering ability to build robotics integrations and prototypes.
• Strong commercial instincts to turn opportunities into pilots or paid engagements.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.

Responsibilities

• Build the pipeline by mapping the robotics landscape and opening conversations.
• Onboard Providers as Miners with APIs and Intents.
• Onboard Consumers and route demand through Telegraph.
• Develop robotics API adapters and end-to-end demos with the protocol team.
• Capture technical needs from engineering teams and translate into Intents specifications.
• Seed new Intents by creating bounties to attract supply and benchmarks.
• Contribute to roadmapping and communicate blockers to engineering.
• Collaborate with the ads team to target robotics companies and close deals.

Skills

Robotics ecosystem networking

Hands-on robotics integration

Strong communication

Tools

ROS2

Python

C++

Job description

About Telegraph and why robotics

Telegraph is the network that turns intelligence into a graded commodity. Ranked by performance. Driven by demand. Providers plug in machine-callable capabilities – models, APIs, datasets, tools – and are ranked per Intent on measured performance. Consumers plug in once and access ranked intelligence for the job, paid per request in USDC. The protocol is technology-agnostic by design. The same architecture can support intelligence ranging from weather forecasting to object detection and path planning, with task-specific interfaces and evaluation. Robots are among the most demanding consumers of intelligence: they need many kinds at once – perception, mapping, localisation, task planning, language, simulation, environment data – and each must meet the performance and reliability requirements of the task. Telegraph is building an open, continuously evaluated market for that intelligence. This role exists to bring the robotics industry into that market.

Robotics Lead – a technical-commercial hire

Remote, full-time, reporting to the CEO. This is not a pure research or sales role. Telegraph’s core protocol is designed to support intelligence across domains. The work is to bring robotics companies onto the network on both sides – as Providers selling the intelligence they have built, and as Consumers buying the intelligence their robots need – and turn their technical requirements into Intents Telegraph can rank. You should also be capable of building the initial integrations yourself: connecting robotics services through APIs, developing adapters and prototypes, and demonstrating working end‑to‑end use cases. Telegraph’s engineering team will support protocol‑specific development, infrastructure, and changes to the core network.

What you’ll do

• Build the pipeline. Map the robotics landscape – humanoid and mobile robot makers, warehouse and logistics automation, drones, autonomous vehicles, robotics model labs and simulation companies – and open conversations through your network and warm second‑degree introductions.
• Onboard Providers. Bring robotics model and data teams onto Telegraph as Miners. Get their capabilities behind APIs, registered against the right Intents and earning from paid requests.
• Onboard Consumers. Work with robotics teams to find which off‑board intelligence they buy or build today, and route that demand through Telegraph.
• Build integrations and demos. Develop robotics API adapters, working prototypes, and end‑to‑end demonstrations. Help Providers and Consumers integrate with Telegraph, working alongside the protocol engineering team where necessary.
• Capture technical needs. Sit with engineering teams, document what their robots need – inputs, outputs, latency budgets, accuracy requirements, data formats including vision, point clouds and sensor streams – and turn those needs into clear Intent specifications.
• Seed new Intents. Where demand exists but no Provider does, scope an Intent Bounty to attract supply, and help Evaluator developers build the benchmarks that rank Providers for it.
• Feed the roadmap. Report what blocks robotics adoption – non‑text modalities, streaming, latency, jurisdiction constraints – so engineering knows what to build first.
• Shape the ads. Work with the ads team on social ads that target robotics companies and convert them, as both Providers and Consumers.
• Close. Move deals from interest to pilot, to signed mainnet commitment, to paid usage.

What success looks like

• Intro or expressed interest
• Pilot agreed (Provider or Consumer)
• Signed mainnet commitment
• Paid usage or revenue on the network

By the end of the first two months: a named target list of robotics companies, a set of robotics Intents specified with real customer requirements, the first robotics Providers live as Miners, working integration demos, and the first pilots signed ahead of or at mainnet. The ultimate measure of success is real robotics intelligence being supplied, consumed, evaluated, and paid for through Telegraph.

Who you are

Must have

• A working network in robotics – founders, CTOs, heads of autonomy or perception at robotics companies who will take your call.
• Enough technical depth to talk to robotics engineers as a peer: perception, SLAM and localisation, planning, sim‑to‑real, sensor data. You can read a specification and spot what’s missing.
• Hands‑on engineering ability. Experience building robotics integrations, working with APIs, and developing prototypes using technologies such as ROS2, Python, C++, and robotics simulation tools. You can write code and get a working integration running yourself.
• Strong commercial instincts. You can identify a real customer need, explain a technical solution, manage relationships, and turn an opportunity into a pilot or paid engagement.
• Comfort working independently, remotely, and fast in a lean team of nine.
• Fluent English, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• A PhD or research background in robotics, computer vision or ML – useful for credibility with labs, not required.
• Experience with model marketplaces, APIs or developer platforms.
• Experience developing robotics benchmarks, evaluation systems or simulation-based testing.
• Contacts in Asian robotics and manufacturing.
• No prior blockchain, cryptocurrency, USDC, or x402 experience is required.

Engagement terms

• Full-time, fully remote.
• Salary and equity, negotiated based on experience.
• Performance‑based incentives may be discussed.