Basis Research

Research Engineer, Operations

New York Office. Posted 11 months ago

The role

Research Engineers in Operations build internal tooling, automation, and measurement systems to increase researcher productivity and operational efficiency. You will create tools for researcher productivity, GTM automation, and analytics infrastructure.

What you will do

  • Build researcher productivity tools including experiment tracking and literature research automation
  • Develop GTM and business operations automation including CRM systems and proposal generation
  • Create analytics and measurement infrastructure for research progress and operational metrics
  • Automate operational processes for recruiting, marketing, and cross-functional workflows
  • Build internal APIs and integrations connecting systems like Notion, Linear, and Slack
  • Implement AI/LLM-powered tools leveraging RAG and agent orchestration
  • Translate research ideas into robust and scalable code
  • Contribute to the culture and direction of Basis

Required qualifications

  • Excellent programming and software engineering skills in Julia, Python, C++, or ML-family languages
  • Ability to drive software projects from start to finish
  • Comfortable digesting research from PL and/or ML venues such as PLDI, POPL, NeurIPS, or ICML
  • Ability to progress with a high degree of autonomy and under uncertainty
  • Experience with LLM-powered automation including OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude, or LangChain
  • Significant technical achievements within ML engineering
  • Understand research and operational workflows to identify automation opportunities
  • Skilled at user-centric design for internal tools

Nice to have

  • Implemented variants of newly published techniques from scratch
  • Build systems and workflows for training large models distributed across many machines
  • Built systems that span all levels from high-level API infrastructure to close-to-the-metal code

About the company

Basis is a nonprofit applied AI research organization with goals to understand and build intelligence and advance society's ability to solve intractable problems.