Member of Technical Staff - Atlas (Internal Agent Engineering)

Basis AI•New York, NY

18h•Onsite

About The Position

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 . About the Team Atlas is Basis’s internal agent team with a single mandate: make every employee 100× more productive. We’re building the internal agents, automations, and knowledge systems that make Basis the first truly agent-native company. Atlas connects people, context, and tools—operationalizing knowledge so that Basis runs faster, learns faster, and scales intelligently. Our work spans Retool apps, Chrome extensions, internal APIs, MCP integrations, and developer tooling that empower every team. We design for leverage: when Atlas ships something, the entire company gets faster. About the Role As an Atlas Engineer at Basis, you’ll own internal systems and agents end-to-end—from scoping to deployment. You’ll act as the Responsible Party (RP) for your projects: identifying opportunities, designing automations, building the systems, and measuring their impact. You’ll sit close to the work—talking with engineers, accounting teams, and operators to find bottlenecks—and you’ll fix them fast. Sometimes that means writing code; other times it means wiring up low-code tools or shaping agent behavior through prompts and evals. You won’t be managed—you’ll be trusted to find the highest-leverage problems and solve them with speed, clarity, and craft.

Responsibilities

Build the systems that make Basis agent-native
Design and ship internal agents for coding, ops, and knowledge management.
Define and maintain context architectures (docs, repos, APIs) that agents can reason about.
Extend and evaluate agents—prompts, tools, and safety layers—to make them effective across workflows.
Create fast feedback loops: instrument impact, analyze trajectories, and iterate on behavior.
Automate high-leverage workflows
Identify manual processes and turn them into reliable automations.
Build and extend internal tools with Retool, custom scripts, or APIs.
Integrate SaaS systems and internal data sources into unified workflows.
Decide pragmatically when to code vs. configure—optimize for velocity and maintainability.
Build connective tissue across teams
Partner with engineering, operations, and accounting to understand how work actually happens.
Map out bottlenecks and design systems that remove them permanently.
Build lightweight internal products—CLI tools, Slack bots, Chrome extensions—that give teammates superpowers.
Document what you build so others can extend it easily.
Operate as an RP — plan, build, iterate
Scope and plan your own projects with clarity; own timelines and decisions.
Ship fast, instrument impact, and measure improvement.
Run your own postmortems and refine processes as you go.
Share learnings and frameworks that others can reuse across Basis.