Research Engineer, Machine Learning

About the Company

Basis is a nonprofit applied AI research organization focused on understanding and building intelligence and advancing society's ability to solve intractable problems through new technological foundations and human-centric collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate research ideas into correct, robust, and scalable high-quality code
• Engage in programming language design and implementation
• Perform engineering to scale research code
• Develop algorithms
• Contribute to the culture and direction of Basis
• Optionally publish and present findings in journals and conferences

Requirements

• Excellent programming and software engineering skills in Julia, Python, C++, or ML-family languages
• Demonstrated ability to drive software projects from start to finish
• Ability to digest research from PL and/or ML venues (e.g., PLDI, POPL, NeurIPS, ICML)
• Ability to progress with high autonomy and under uncertainty
• Significant technical achievements in ML engineering, such as implementing new techniques from scratch or building distributed training systems

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent experience in statistics, programming languages, machine learning, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, physics, or mathematics