Basis Ai

Intelligence Architect

New York Office. Posted 6 months ago

The role

Intelligence Architects build coherent systems that construct agent intelligence from disparate information. You will architect and author agent context, including procedures, skills, and system prompts. You will also set standards for consistency and define measurement for agent performance.

What you will do

  • Architecting and authoring agents' context
  • Deciding what context agents need and how it is structured
  • Writing procedures, skills, and system prompts
  • Ensuring consistency across agents by setting standards
  • Defining how procedures should be written
  • Defining when context is ready to ship
  • Watching agents at work to define missing context when output is insufficient
  • Informing future product builds through perspective on agent capabilities

Required qualifications

  • Writing as a craft
  • Reasoning about systems
  • Working from causes, not effects
  • Drawn to the frontier
  • Motivation by learning
  • Comfort in ambiguity
  • Ability to hold many things at once

Nice to have

  • Engineers and PMs who've drifted from building systems to questioning whether the system is doing the right thing
  • Philosophers who've spent years writing precise prose about systems no one else understood
  • Lawyers who write the kind of language other people have to follow
  • Accountants who appreciate language and want to shape the future of your profession
  • Editors and writers who treat structured prose as engineering
  • Academics tired of producing work that nobody acts on

Benefits

  • Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • Life Insurance
  • 6 coaching and 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
  • 100% coverage for Wellhub Gold membership
  • Access to gyms like Lifetime, SoulCycle, NYSC and wellness apps like Strava and Headspace
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 12 paid company holidays
  • Daily meal stipends
  • Fully stocked kitchen
  • $300 toward custom desk setup
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • 401(k) retirement plan

About the company

Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy, performing end-to-end work for large accounting firms. The company recently raised $100M at a >$1B valuation.