About Aptura
Aptura partners with leading foundational AI labs to advance how frontier models reason about complex financial problems. Founded by ex-Lazard and Partners Group professionals and headquartered in London and San Francisco, we bring institutional finance expertise directly into the AI development loop, shaping how the next generation of models handles valuation, modelling, and deal analysis.
The Opportunity
We're building out our UK cohort and looking for high-performing investment banking associates to join as AI Residents. This is a chance to apply your bulge-bracket training to a problem set that didn't exist five years ago: teaching frontier AI to reason like a banker.
You will:
- Prompt: Build realistic, deal-relevant scenarios, the kind of work you'd assign to a first-year analyst, and test AI outputs against the standards of a real deal team.
- Compare human vs. machine judgment: Identify where AI reasoning breaks down on valuation, accounting nuance, and transaction structuring.
- Design frameworks: Translate banker intuition; how you stress assumptions, navigate ambiguity in financials, and pressure-test management projections, into problems that challenge frontier AI.
- Construct expert benchmarks: Build and annotate real-world DCFs, LBOs, comps, and live deal cases used to evaluate AI systems.
Why This Experience Is Valuable
- Direct exposure to how AI labs train models, knowledge that will be increasingly valuable across buy-side, strategy, and corporate development roles.
- Be among the first IB professionals in the UK contributing to the frontier AI development process in finance.
- A differentiated story for your next move, whether that's PE, growth equity, or a strategic role.
Who You Are
- 3–4+ years of IB or Corporate Finance experience at a top international bank (bulge bracket, elite boutique, or top-tier global advisory).
- Associate level; sector agnostic.
- Strong modeling and valuation skills (DCF, LBO, comps, precedents).
- Excellent written communication and attention to detail.
- Real intellectual curiosity about AI in finance.
Residency Structure
- Commitment: Minimum 30+ hours/week, flexible scheduling
- Location: Fully remote
- Compensation: Competitive hourly rate, commensurate with experience
- Start date: Immediate / Rolling
- Referral bonus: for any successful referral hired into this role