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BasisBasisNew York, NY

Intelligence Architect

Designs and authors context, procedures, skills, and system prompts for AI agents performing autonomous accounting tasks. Ensures consistency, monitors performance, and shapes future capabilities through precise language and systems thinking.

150k – 225k
On-siteAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Architect and author agents' context, including procedures, skills, and system prompts.
  • Set standards for consistency across agents, defining how procedures and skills are written.
  • Monitor agent performance, identify context gaps, and improve outputs.
  • Shape future product decisions based on agent capabilities and improvements.

Requirements

  • Excellent writing skills, treating language as load-bearing with precise prose.
  • Strong systems reasoning and ability to understand root causes.
  • Comfort in ambiguity and frontier problems without textbook answers.
  • Quick learning to build accurate mental models of new domains like accounting.
  • Ability to hold multiple factors (user problems, agent behavior, procedures, success measures) simultaneously.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Background in engineering, product management, philosophy, law, accounting, editing, or academia with curiosity about AI agents.

Skills

System PromptsAI AgentsProceduresSkills AuthoringEvaluationsContext EngineeringReasoning SystemsDomain KnowledgePrompt EngineeringAgent Architecture

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