About the job
About Us: At Mentis AI, we stand at the forefront of the intersection between innovative AI systems and institutional finance. Our dedicated team boasts extensive experience from prominent firms such as Lazard and Partners Group, integrating deep financial services expertise with cutting-edge machine learning and AI research. Operating from our key locations in London and San Francisco, we collaborate with leading AI laboratories to enhance the reasoning, generalization, and decision-making capabilities of models in high-stakes financial scenarios.
The Opportunity: With the rapid integration of AI into core real estate investment processes—spanning acquisitions, underwriting, asset management, debt structuring, and fund-level reporting—this residency is tailored for institutional real estate private equity (REPE) professionals eager to gain firsthand experience in the development, evaluation, and enhancement of advanced AI systems within the context of REPE investing across various property types and risk profiles.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Expert Benchmarks: Construct and validate real-world underwriting models, return analyses, and investment cases to assess frontier AI systems.
Stress-Test Model Reasoning: Identify weaknesses in AI-generated real estate analyses, pinpointing logical flaws, erroneous assumptions, or lapses in market intuition.
Design Analytical Frameworks: Transform how REPE professionals evaluate acquisitions, structure transactions, and manage assets throughout the investment lifecycle into challenges that stretch AI reasoning capabilities.
Assess Human vs. Machine Judgment: Conduct systematic evaluations of the disparities between professional real estate judgment and AI outputs across varying asset classes, risk profiles, and fund structures.
Why This Experience Matters:
Be among the pioneering real estate investment professionals to engage directly with how frontier AI models assess acquisitions, underwriting, and asset management.
Cultivate a unique professional profile positioned at the confluence of real estate and AI—ideal for roles within funds, AI companies, or entrepreneurial ventures.
Gain practical insights into how AI is transforming real estate workflows, from deal screening and underwriting to joint venture structuring, asset management, and LP reporting.

