Real Esate Investment Professionals – AI Residency - Part-time, Frontier AI Research, US

About Us Mentis AI works at the intersection of institutional investment expertise and frontier AI systems. Our team combines deep asset management experience (Lazard, Partners Group) with machine learning and applied AI research. Operating across London and San Francisco, we collaborate with leading AI labs to improve how models reason, generalize, and make decisions in high-stakes financial contexts.

The Opportunity This residency is designed for senior research analysts and portfolio managers who want exposure and a meaningful experience towards the direction of AI in your domain and earn early, practical exposure at using advanced AI system.

You will:

• Prompt: Develop and iterate realistic prompts that you would ask a junior role to test the relevance and quality of AI-generated insights.

• Compare human vs. machine judgment: Systematically evaluate divergence between professional real estate judgment and AI outputs across asset classes, risk profiles, and fund structures.

• Design frameworks: Translate how REPE professionals evaluate acquisitions, structure transactions, and manage assets across the investment lifecycle into problems that push the limits of AI reasoning.

• Construct expert benchmarks: Build and validate real-world underwriting models, return analyses, and investment cases used to evaluate frontier AI systems.

Why This Experience Is Valuable

• Hands-on exposure to how AI is reshaping real estate workflows, from deal screening and underwriting through joint venture structuring, asset management, and LP reporting.

• You will be among the first real estate investment professionals to work directly on how frontier AI models reason about acquisitions, underwriting, and asset management.

Who You Are

• 3–8 years of experience in institutional real estate private equity (e.g. Blackstone Real Estate, Brookfield Asset Management, Starwood Capital, Lone Star Funds)

• Associate or VP level in acquisitions or asset management

• Strong real estate financial modeling skills: DCF, waterfall structures, development proformas, and return attribution

• Experience across multiple asset classes (multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, retail) and risk profiles (core, value-add, opportunistic)

• Familiarity with debt structuring, joint venture documentation, and LP reporting

• Genuine intellectual curiosity about the application of AI in real estate investment

Residency Structure

• Commitment: 15+ hours/week, flexible scheduling

• Location: Remote globally, or in person if based in London

• Compensation: Hourly rate depending on experience

• Start date: Immediate / Rolling