Private Credit Professionals - AI Residency (Part-time) | Frontier AI Research

Mentis AI operates at the intersection of institutional finance and frontier AI systems, collaborating with leading AI labs to enhance decision-making in high-stakes financial contexts. They are seeking part-time Private Credit Professionals for an AI Residency to work on integrating AI into private credit workflows, focusing on benchmarking credit analyses and evaluating AI reasoning in lending scenarios.

Responsibilities:

• Construct expert benchmarks: Build and validate real-world credit analyses, underwriting cases, and portfolio monitoring frameworks used to evaluate frontier AI systems
• Stress-test model reasoning: Diagnose weaknesses in AI-generated credit analyses, identifying where logic, assumptions, or underwriting intuition fail
• Design frameworks: Translate how credit professionals evaluate borrowers, structure facilities, and monitor middle-market companies through the deal lifecycle into problems that push the limits of AI reasoning
• Compare human vs. machine judgment: Systematically evaluate divergence between professional credit judgment and AI outputs across direct lending, unitranche, and structured credit contexts