Atlas - Codebase Context Engineering
Basis
Location
New York Office
Employment Type
Full time
Department
01 Technical Staff
About Basis
Basis equips accountants with a team of AI agents to take on real workflows.
We have hit product market fit, have more demand than we can meet, and just raised $34m to scale at a speed that meets this moment.
Built in New York City. Read more about Basis here.
Why join
World class investors: We're backed by Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures alongside Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Aaron Levie, Adam D'angelo, Amjad Masad, Jack Altman, Jeff Dean, Larry Summers, Noam Brown and many leaders from the ML and fintech community. Check out our announcement for an expansive list
Extremely fast growth: We’ve partnered with some of the largest accounting firms in the world, with revenue 10x-ing over the last 5 months
Be part of building a company: We’re scaling the team fast and the business faster, meaning there will always be more responsibility than we have people. No better place to get a ton of responsibility and ownership on day 1
In person & interdisciplinary: We operate on the frontier of what’s technically possible. That is why being in-person is a must. We’re bringing together the brightest minds from the top engineering, ML, and accounting teams to work together in our NYC office and build production quality agentic systems
High risk: We believe the world is about to change in profound ways. We are building Basis to be on the cutting-edge of that change for a decade to come, and we have an appetite for the risk that comes with that. The journey has just begun
Compensation: We aim to pay competitively for cash compensation and well above market for equity compensation because the whole team is all-in, and we want you to be too
📍 Location: NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.
About the role
This role is about ensuring that the various coding agents that operate on our codebase are as effective as possible. You will be improving context, running evals, investigating trajectories, adding additional agents, improving development process, and generally being the manager of coding agents in Basis.
Learn more about the Atlas team broadly here
What we look for
AI native: Is a power user of AI for coding, personal work etc.
Agent experience: This is not at all a requirement, but definitely a plus to have some experience building or working with agents
Business context: Quickly pick up context of business use case and can hold this context in mind as working through system
Project owner: Own projects from start to finish, including managing many dependencies
Clear communicator: Precise and thoughtful communicator who can break complex concepts down to their fundamental elements
Systems-thinker: See how all the pieces fit together and develop abstractions to scale
Interdisciplinary: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
Company-builder: Excited to lay the groundwork, technically and culturally, as we rapidly scale
Passionate: Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
Curious: Love to play with new ideas/tech
Office lover: Prefers shouting across a room over a slack message, seeking full-time in-office in NYC
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All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to further accelerate our velocity. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
In accordance with New York State regulations, the salary range for this position is $100,000–$300,000. This range represents our broad compensation philosophy and covers various responsibility and experience levels. Additionally, all employees are eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. We are committed to meritocratic and competitive compensation.