About the job
About Us Mentis AI operates at the exciting intersection of institutional investment expertise and cutting-edge AI technologies. Our team merges extensive asset management experience from prestigious firms like Lazard and Partners Group with advanced machine learning and AI research. With offices in London and San Francisco, we partner with leading AI laboratories to enhance model reasoning, generalization, and decision-making in high-stakes financial scenarios.
The Opportunity We invite senior research analysts and portfolio managers to join our AI Residency program. This part-time opportunity offers invaluable exposure to the transformative role of AI in your field, allowing you to gain practical experience with advanced AI systems.
Your Responsibilities:
Prompt Development: Create and refine realistic prompts that could be utilized by junior analysts to evaluate the relevance and quality of AI-generated insights.
Human vs. Machine Evaluation: Methodically assess the differences between professional investment reasoning and AI outputs across equities, fixed income, and multi-asset contexts.
Framework Design: Adapt the methodologies employed by institutional investors for security evaluation, portfolio construction, and risk management into challenges that stretch the capabilities of AI reasoning.
Benchmark Construction: Develop and validate real-world investment cases and frameworks for securities analysis and portfolio management that can be used to evaluate frontier AI systems.
Why This Experience Matters
Gain hands-on exposure to how AI is revolutionizing investment workflows, from fundamental research and portfolio construction to client interactions and risk attribution.
Be among the first institutional investment professionals to directly engage with how frontier AI models interpret public markets and portfolio management.
Your Profile
4+ years of experience with a leading long-only institutional manager (e.g., BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Wellington, PIMCO, MFS, Neuberger Berman, Jennison, Artisan Partners).
Positioned at the level of Senior Research Analyst or Portfolio Manager.
In-depth expertise in equities, fixed income, or multi-asset portfolio management.
Proficient in conducting fundamental analysis, writing investment reports, and managing portfolio strategies.

