AI-Powered Investment Research Lead

Selby Jennings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking exceptional candidates to join an AI-driven investment platform that enhances fundamental research and capital allocation across public markets. The role blends investing with advanced AI work, training models and performing rigorous research across equities and credit.

You will build and evaluate models for financial reasoning, maintain sector coverage, and generate actionable investment ideas while contributing to capital deployment decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience in investment banking, buy-side investing, asset management, hedge funds or portfolio management.
• Strong foundation in fundamental analysis, valuation, financial modeling and security selection.
• Experience in joining an AI laboratory and working with large language models for financial tasks.
• Desire to return to investing while helping build AI systems for investment research.

Responsibilities

• Train proprietary AI systems to perform sophisticated fundamental investment research.
• Create and evaluate model outputs for company analysis, financial statement interpretation, valuation, earnings, credit underwriting, investment thesis and portfolio construction.
• Design benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure financial reasoning quality.
• Partner with engineers, quantitative researchers, and PMs to improve model performance.
• Maintain sector and company coverage; conduct deep fundamental research across equities and/or credit.
• Build financial models and perform valuation analysis; generate investment recommendations and trade ideas.
• Present investment views to portfolio managers and leadership; participate in capital deployment discussions.
• Leverage internal AI tools to improve investment outcomes.

Skills

Investment banking background

Buy-side investing

Fundamental analysis

Financial modeling

Valuation

Security selection

AI/ML in finance

Teaching/LLMs in finance

Portfolio management

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking exceptional candidates to join an AI-driven investment platform that enhances fundamental research and capital allocation across public markets. The role blends investing with advanced AI work, training models and performing rigorous research across equities and credit.

You will build and evaluate models for financial reasoning, maintain sector coverage, and generate actionable investment ideas while contributing to capital deployment decisions.