Nonprofit AI Research Org Basis Hiring Research Operations Manager
xuanalogue · x · 2026-10-23
Basis, a nonprofit applied AI research organization founded by Zenna Tavares and others, is hiring a Research Operations Manager to work with Keane Schroeder and the core team.
- Extremely broad role: scaling a research org, designing lab spaces with architects/hardware engineers/artists, scaling research software engineering for the agent era, and applied meta-science tackling bottlenecks from formal verification to robotics to urban ecology
- Reports closely to the COO with independent ownership of major systems; Basis calls this "likely the best time to join"
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