Basis Research

Basis Research

Research Scientist, Compilers and Programming Languages

New York Office · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 538 days ago
Machine LearningPyTorchStatisticsResearch

About the role

  • Research scientists at Basis are distinguished by the following traits:
  • Exceptional technical depth-solid mathematical and computational foundations.
  • Scientific rigor-rigorous, high-quality, robust science, without fear of tinkering, making mistakes, and exploring radically different ideas in order to get there.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain programming languages tools for Basis' core reasoning technology.
  • Collaborate with domain experts on Basis scientific and societal challenge problems.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Have demonstrated an ability to conduct first-class scientific research, published in venues such as PLDI, OOPSLA, and POPL, or in technical reports.
  • Have demonstrated an ability to write excellent software.

Skills

  • Programming Languages Research Scientists
  • You've contributed heavily to the compiler infrastructure of a machine learning or statistics framework, such as PyTorch, Stan, or Jax

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and bonuses
  • Non-Discrimination Notice
  • By submitting your application, you grant Basis permission to use your materials for both hiring evaluation and recruitment-related research and development purposes.
  • Your information may be processed in different countries, including the US.
  • You retain copyright while providing Basis a license to use these materials for the stated purposes.

Benefits

  • Develop and explore computational theories of intelligence, including reasoning, learning, and decision-making.
  • Hours: While we prioritize in-person collaboration for its benefits to creative work, there is a degree of flexibility in your working hours.

Company info

  • Basis is a collaborative effort, both internally and with our external partners; we are looking for people who enjoy working with others on problems larger than ones they can tackle alone.

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