Operations 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 Operations Manager: New York City, posted 10 August 2026.
• Scientific Proposal Writer: New York City, USD 70k to 100k, posted 30 January 2025.

Basis Research is also hiring in data and AI (4), engineering (3), hardware and science (3) 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).

You set up the systems that keep the company running, from vendors and tooling to how work gets scheduled. The job changes shape as the company grows, and nobody hands you a process to follow. In a large firm this work is split between finance, facilities and a project office.