Basis Technology

What is Basis Technology?

Basis Technology is a natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company specialises in multilingual text analytics, providing software that enables organisations to process, analyse, and understand text in hundreds of languages.

Basis Technology's products serve government agencies, intelligence organisations, and large enterprises that need to extract insights from multilingual data at scale. Their Rosette platform handles entity extraction, sentiment analysis, language identification, and name translation across a vast range of scripts and languages. With over 25 years of expertise, Basis Technology is a recognised leader in the multilingual NLP space.

Where will I work?

Basis Technology is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, and operates a hybrid work model. Team members split time between the office and remote work, with flexibility to accommodate different working styles and preferences. The Somerville office provides a collaborative workspace in the heart of the Boston-area tech hub.

What is the team like?

With approximately 49 employees, Basis Technology is a small, specialised team of computational linguists, software engineers, data scientists, and business professionals. The team brings deep expertise in NLP, machine learning, and linguistics across many languages and cultures. The culture values technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, and solving hard problems in multilingual text processing.

Work-Life Balance

Basis Technology operates a compressed work week with 36 hours across four days. This approach gives employees a three-day weekend while maintaining strong productivity and focus during the working days. The compressed schedule reflects the company's belief that well-rested employees produce better work, especially in the intellectually demanding field of NLP research and engineering.

Perks and Benefits

• Compressed 4-day work week (36 hours)
• Healthcare benefits
• Pension or retirement plan
• Professional development opportunities
• Equity or stock options
• Hybrid work flexibility