Investment Banking & Capital Markets Professionals - AI Residency (Part-time) | Frontier AI Research (US)

📋 Description

• • This part-time AI residency role at Aptura Inc. (operating as Mentis AI) is designed for senior investment banking and capital markets professionals seeking to bridge deep financial expertise with frontier AI research. The role matters because it positions participants at the forefront of shaping how AI models reason about high-stakes financial decisions, directly influencing the development of systems used in M&A, capital markets, and deal execution.
• • Day to day, the resident will develop and iterate realistic prompts to test AI-generated insights, systematically compare human versus machine judgment in financial contexts like M&A, ECM, DCM, and leveraged finance, design frameworks that translate senior banker deal evaluation into AI reasoning challenges, and construct expert benchmarks using real-world transaction analyses and valuation materials to evaluate AI performance.
• • The team combines institutional finance experience from firms like Lazard and Partners Group with machine learning and applied AI research, operating across London and San Francisco while collaborating with leading AI labs to improve model reasoning in high-stakes financial environments.
• • Through this role, the participant will gain hands-on exposure to how AI is transforming deal workflows—from pitching and origination to financial modeling, fairness opinions, and transaction close—and will be among the first investment banking professionals to directly influence how frontier AI models reason about transaction structuring, valuation, and capital markets execution, building unique expertise at the intersection of finance and AI.