Research Analyst Intern

Research Analyst Intern — AI Infrastructure & Frontier Tech

About the Role
We are hiring a curious, self-directed intern (with a clear pathway to a full-time analyst role) to contribute to our investment research process across three interconnected domains. You will work directly with our Chief Investment Officer (Brad Stanley, CFA, CMU Computer Science) and our Senior Portfolio Manager (Wei Huang, PhD/MBA/CFA — former NASA engineer, Wharton MBA). This is an apprenticeship-style role with a credible long-term trajectory toward junior portfolio manager responsibility.

What You Will Actually Do
You will rotate fluidly across three research domains:
AI infrastructure and semiconductor ecosystem. Frontier AI capability tracking. Maintaining cutting-edge understanding of foundation model developments at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta, Mistral, and the Chinese frontier labs. Tracking emerging techniques, breakthroughs in training and increasingly in inference, AI agent capability proliferation, and enterprise adoption. Macro and micro research on emerging markets and Asian economies.

How You Will Work
A meaningful portion of your time will be spent building and using AI agents — not as productivity helpers but as autonomous research workers. You will work primarily with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and other agentic coding tools. We design complex agents with high-level reasoning and planning, delegation to sub-agents, operating with significant autonomy under appropriate oversight. We adopt new tools the day they release.

What We Care About
Finance experience is helpful but not required. Computer science background is helpful but not required. Elite school is not required.
We care about: demonstrated self-directed learning, intellectual curiosity, clear analytical thinking, and either existing fluency with AI agents and frontier tooling or credible ability to acquire it rapidly. Strong written and spoken English is required for daily team collaboration and engagement with external industry contacts and peer networks.

Logistics
In-person at our Berwyn, PA office. F-1 students on CPT or OPT welcome. Paid hourly during internship; full-time conversion offer competitive for the regional market.

To Apply
Submit the following to brads@stanleylaman.com:
(1) Resume
(2) Video introduction — minimum 2 minutes, no maximum length. Submit via Loom, YouTube (unlisted link is fine), Vimeo, Google Drive, Dropbox, or any other public link we can view. We don't care about production polish, only the thinking. If video submission is not feasible due to a disability or other circumstance, please contact us to discuss alternative formats.
(3) Public code repository link. If you have relevant existing work on GitHub, share it. If you don't, build a small project as part of applying — we recommend setting up Claude Code with a .claude/ directory, CLAUDE.md, and a small agentic workflow to explore the framework.