Member of Technical Staff (All Levels)

Summary

Basis is a company that builds real agents to perform complex tasks in the economy, recently achieving a valuation of over $1 billion. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will engage in diverse roles across product engineering, agent engineering, and platform infrastructure, tackling unique challenges in agent design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design the context ontology for an agent
• Build the data pipelines to hydrate agent state
• Engage in product engineering and agent engineering
• Work on the agent platform and infrastructure
• Ensure accurate and low latency external data for agents
• Build the AI systems powering Basis from recruiting to sales to engineering

Skills

• In person in Flatiron, NYC 5 days a week
• Excited about working with coding agents (we give every engineer an unlimited token budget)
• Excited about working at the frontier of applying agents to real economy problems
• First principles and systems thinking. Many of the problems we solve are net new. There's no playbook. We want people who can decompose a novel problem, reason from fundamentals rather than pattern match, and design things that compound
• Thinking beyond the engineering. The engineers who do best here understand the domain deeply: the data systems, the workflows, the work our agents are performing. That understanding is what lets you design better systems, train better agents, and make better product decisions
• Ownership of outcomes. Every project at Basis has a single Responsible Party (RP) who is accountable for whether it ships and whether it works. There are always more things to own than people to own them. Engineers own their own work at Basis
• Agency. Having the initiative to pick up the context you need to make good decisions. Talking to the right people, reading the data, understanding the problem deeply enough to know what matters

Qualifications

Must Haves

• In person in Flatiron, NYC 5 days a week
• Excited about working with coding agents (we give every engineer an unlimited token budget)
• Excited about working at the frontier of applying agents to real economy problems
• First principles and systems thinking. Many of the problems we solve are net new. There's no playbook. We want people who can decompose a novel problem, reason from fundamentals rather than pattern match, and design things that compound
• Thinking beyond the engineering. The engineers who do best here understand the domain deeply: the data systems, the workflows, the work our agents are performing. That understanding is what lets you design better systems, train better agents, and make better product decisions
• Ownership of outcomes. Every project at Basis has a single Responsible Party (RP) who is accountable for whether it ships and whether it works. There are always more things to own than people to own them. Engineers own their own work at Basis
• Agency. Having the initiative to pick up the context you need to make good decisions. Talking to the right people, reading the data, understanding the problem deeply enough to know what matters

Benefits

• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Life Insurance
• 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
• Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays
• Daily meal stipends
• Fully stocked kitchen
• $300 toward your custom desk setup
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly office activities
• Frequent optional team happy hours
• Parental Leave