Why Basis Research Institute
FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedDevelops innovative artificial intelligence research and solutions.
- Basis performs Research and development into ai reasoning technology,building general modeling and inference tools that automate causal and probabilistic reasoning. We apply these tools in areas that have broad scientific and societal impact. Our current focus applications have been basic…$720K spent in FY2024
- The modeling, abstract and reasoning agent (mara) project is a Research initiative to develop ai agents capable of discovering and reasoning with abstract models of the world to carry out goals across a portfoliio of domains.$500K spent in FY2024
- Core tech program expense$383K spent in FY2024
Before you apply
FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
The org's own posting, as writtenABOUT BASIS Basis https://www.basis.ai is a nonprofit applied AI research organization with two mutually reinforcing goals. The first is to understand and build intelligence. This means to establish the mathematical principles of what it means to reason, to learn, to make decisions, to understand, and to explain; and to construct software that implements these principles. The second is to advance society’s ability to solve intractable problems. This means expanding the scale, complexity, and breadth of problems that we can solve today, and even more importantly, accelerating our ability to solve problems in the future.
To achieve these goals, we’re building both a new technological foundation that draws inspiration from how humans reason, and a new kind of collaborative organization that puts human values first.
About the role
Research operations at Basis is the work of building an institution capable of sustained, ambitious inquiry. The quality and impact of research depends to a great extent on the organization in which it happens: how research teams are formed, how collaboration is structured, how resources and spaces are organized, and how the institution responds to uncertainty and new ideas. The Research Operations Manager will own and improve the core systems through which Basis’ research organization functions, across people, recruiting, labs and workplaces, research gatherings, grants, and administration.
We are looking for someone who treats operations as a serious craft: someone who enjoys creating coherent structures around exploratory work, making sound decisions, and using thoughtful process design, tools, and automation to translate organizational principles into practices that accelerate our work. This is a broad and hands-on role, requiring both rigorous execution and thoughtful institutional design. You will work closely with the COO and assume independent ownership of major operational domains, identifying problems, weighing tradeoffs, establishing standards, and remaining accountable for outcomes.
WE EXPECT YOU TO: - Have demonstrated the ability to own important operational domains and run them reliably over time. - Exercise sound judgment and operate with a high degree of autonomy, including under uncertainty. - Take the details of execution seriously. You close loops, maintain systems, and follow work through to completion without repeated reminders. - Enjoy operations as a craft, including both the design of new systems and the recurring work required to make them function. - Be comfortable in a technical research environment.
You do not need to be a scientist, but you should be intellectually curious, able to engage with experts, and interested in how research organizations work. - Communicate clearly and handle personnel, candidate, grant, and organizational information with discretion. - Be excited about force-multiplying impact. Much of this work is not externally visible, but it is what allows Basis to solve…
About Basis Research Institute
From its Form 990- Budget $4.7M · Science & Technology
- Staff 7
- Pays its leaders $131K–$195K (8 reported)
- Open jobs 13 · Jobs at Basis Research Institute · Full 990 report