Insurance Professionals - AI Residency (Part-time) | Frontier AI Research

About Us Mentis AI works at the intersection of institutional finance expertise and frontier AI systems. Our team combines deep financial services 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 AI is rapidly becoming embedded into core insurance workflows — from investment portfolio management and underwriting decisions to actuarial modeling and regulatory capital analysis. This residency is designed for insurance professionals who want early, practical exposure to how advanced AI systems are built, evaluated, and improved in the context of carrier operations and insurance finance.

You will:

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

• Stress-test model reasoning: Diagnose weaknesses in AI-generated insurance analyses, identifying where logic, assumptions, or domain intuition fail.

• Design frameworks: Translate how insurance professionals evaluate risk, price policies, manage general account portfolios, and model liabilities into problems that push the limits of AI reasoning.

• Compare human vs. machine judgment: Systematically evaluate divergence between professional insurance judgment and AI outputs across investments, underwriting, and actuarial contexts.
  
  

Why This Experience Is Valuable

• You will be among the first insurance professionals to work directly on how frontier AI models reason about carrier operations, risk selection, and insurance finance.

• A distinctive profile for anyone who wants to sit at the intersection of insurance and AI — whether at a carrier, an AI company, or building something themselves.

• Hands-on exposure to how AI is reshaping insurance workflows, from underwriting and pricing to portfolio management, reserving, and capital modeling.
  
  

Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience at a major P&C or Life insurance carrier

• Associate or VP level in one of the following functions:

  • Investments: Managing fixed income or multi-asset portfolios within an insurance general account; familiarity with ALM, duration matching, and regulatory capital constraints (RBC/Solvency II)

  • Underwriting: Risk selection, pricing, and loss modeling across commercial lines, specialty, or personal lines

  • Actuarial: FSA/FCAS or near-credentialed; experience in reserving, pricing, or capital modeling

• Ability to articulate insurance-specific analytical judgment clearly and precisely in writing

• Genuine intellectual curiosity about the application of AI in the insurance industry
  
  

Residency Structure

• Commitment: 15+ hours/week, flexible scheduling

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

• Compensation: Paid professional engagement

• Start date: Immediate / Rolling