Basis Research
Research Engineer, Operations
New York Office · Full-time · Posted Nov 23, 2025
About the job
Build internal tools, automation, and analytics systems that improve researcher productivity and operational efficiency as Basis scales.
What you'll do
- Build researcher productivity tools and integrate them with research workflows.
- Automate business, recruiting, marketing, and cross-functional operations using internal APIs and system integrations.
- Develop analytics infrastructure and AI/LLM-powered automation, and translate research ideas into robust, scalable code.
What they ask for
- Excellent programming and software engineering skills, especially in Julia, Python, C++, or ML-family languages, with demonstrated ability to deliver software projects end to end.
- Experience with LLM-powered automation, such as language models, workflow orchestration, and agent-based systems.
- Demonstrated significant technical achievements in ML engineering.
- Ability to understand research and operational workflows and identify high-impact automation opportunities.
Nice to have
- Experience in research environments, productivity tools, or infrastructure support for technical teams.
- User-centric internal-tool design, including gathering feedback and measuring adoption and time saved.
Tools
Julia, Python, C++, OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude, LangChain, Notion, Linear
AI focus
Build LLM-powered automation using language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent orchestration.
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