Data & AI Jobs at Basis Research

Basis Research is a nonprofit applied AI research organization. It aims to understand and build intelligence by establishing mathematical principles of reasoning, learning, decision-making, understanding, and explanation, and by constructing software that implements these principles. It also works to advance society's ability to solve intractable scientific and societal problems by expanding the scale, complexity, and breadth of problems that can be solved. The organization is building a universal reasoning engine and a collaborative organization that puts human values first.

• Research Scientist, Program Synthesis & Neuro-symbolic Methods: New York City, USD 120k to 180k, posted 23 November 2025.
• Research Scientist, World Models: New York City, USD 120k to 180k, posted 31 October 2025.
• Research Engineer, Machine Learning: New York City, USD 120k to 180k, posted 5 February 2025.
• Research Scientist, Machine Learning / AI: New York City, USD 120k to 180k, posted 29 January 2025.

Basis Research is also hiring in engineering (3), hardware and science (3), operations (2) and sales and business development (1).

Its roles are in New York City, NY, US (13), Cambridge, MA, US (9), remote (1) and London, UK (1).

The data is messy and there is not much of it yet. You build the pipeline, train the model, then explain the result to a founder in plain words. Large employers give you a clean warehouse and one narrow question, while here you pick the question too.