Member of Technical Staff - Atlas FDE

Basis AI•New York, NY

3d•$100,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy. Our agents operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world. We recently raised $100M at >$1B valuation and are racing to deploy the most advanced applied ML at production scale. Atlas is an internal team at Basis dedicated to finding the answer to what knowledge work looks like when we have AGI. We’re a group of builders, former founders, and engineers that embed directly within our teams, so we can build intelligence deeper into their workflows. As models continue to improve, they change how companies are built and how teams operate. Basis is building the first AI-native company at scale. Atlas is responsible for making that possible. We’ve already shipped agent teammates that push code directly to production, systems that keep company knowledge current automatically, and services that diagnose and repair themselves. These systems do real work inside Basis today. Every advance in model capability opens another set of questions about how work should be organized and another set of things we can build. Our ambition is much larger than making each person 10% more productive. We’re building zero-human loops that handle entire jobs end-to-end and free up our team to take on higher level work. Getting there means inventing new infrastructure, interfaces, operating models, and ways for humans and agents to work together. Atlas FDEs embed with the other teams at Basis, learn their workflows inside and out, and then build agents that offload their work to AI. Unlike most FDE roles, your “customers” are your teammates who are already AI-pilled and eager to work with you to integrate agents further into their work. As an FDE, you will learn the ins-and-outs of the function you embed with and then become the world’s expert in using AI to accomplish that job. If you embed with the engineering team, you will invent the way to build an autonomous software factory. If you embed with our deployed intelligence team, you will become the world’s expert in using AI to manage customer relationships.

Requirements

First principles and systems thinkers.
Ability to decompose a novel problem, reason from fundamentals rather than pattern match, and design things that compound.
Agency, customer obsession, product taste, technical skill, and communication ability.
Enjoy experimentation.
Passionate about outcomes.
In person in Flatiron, NYC 5 days a week.
Excited about working with coding agents (we give every engineer an unlimited token budget).
Excited about working at the frontier of applying agents to real economy problems.

Nice To Haves

Future founders.

Responsibilities

Embed with other teams at Basis, learn their workflows inside and out, and then build agents that offload their work to AI.
Become the world’s expert in using AI to accomplish the job of the function you embed with.
Invent the way to build an autonomous software factory (if embedding with engineering).
Become the world’s expert in using AI to manage customer relationships (if embedding with deployed intelligence team).
Decompose novel problems, reason from fundamentals, and design compounding solutions.
Have agents running when you sleep.
Incorporate learnings back into team processes.
Ensure the success of the team you embed with.