Job Description:
• About Basis: Basis is a nonprofit applied AI research organization with two mutually reinforcing goals.
• Understand and build intelligence: Establish the mathematical principles of reasoning, learning, decision-making, understanding, and constructing software that embodies these principles.
• Advance society’s ability to solve intractable problems: Expanding the scale, complexity, and breadth of problems we can solve today and accelerating our ability to solve problems in the future.
• Building scalable systems that integrate large language models (LLMs) with operational workflows.
• Designing and deploying automated “pipelines” for tasks like recruiting, finance, and project management—often powered by LLMs.
• Hiring contractors, part-time, or full-time teammates.
Requirements:
• Have experience programming in Julia and/or Python (3+ years of production-level coding, or equivalent)
• Understand how to integrate LLMs using structured prompts, scaffolding frameworks (LangChain-like), or advanced text generation approaches
• Can handle concurrency, scaling, and performance optimizations in real-world deployments
• Are comfortable with complex API orchestration: dealing with rate limits, OAuth, error retries, etc.
• Have good collaboration and communication skills, especially when gathering requirements from non-technical staff
• Are flexible and creative problem solvers, comfortable with iterative, experimental development cycles
• Embrace data-security best practices (e.g., handling PII, encryption, secrets management)
• Are excited to learn quickly and adapt to new developments in the LLM/AI ecosystem
• Preferred (not all required):
• Julia: Type-driven or multiple-dispatch approaches; performance tuning, HPC, or scientific computing workflows
• Python: Building microservices with FastAPI, Flask, or other frameworks; advanced concurrency (async, multiprocessing)
• LLM Tools & Frameworks: Familiarity with LangChain, open source LLM clients, or custom chain-of-thought integrations
• Cloud Infrastructure: Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AWS/GCP/Azure deployment patterns
• Distributed Systems & Queues: Experience with concurrent processing, task queues (Celery, Sidekiq), or event-driven systems
• Database Interaction: Ability to design schemas and queries in PostgreSQL or similar databases
• Security & Privacy: Understanding of OAuth flows, secrets management, data encryption, and role-based access controls
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