Atlas - Internal Agent Engineering

Basis Job Opportunity

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.

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 building internal agents to make Basis the first truly agent-native company. This will involve agent building, context engineering, building processes etc.

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.

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.