Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence

A Group Of People Passionate About Tomorrow’s Future

We are a curious and performance driven team who believes that innovation matters, not just to an investor's portfolio but to all of our lives. We strive to understand where the world is heading and what it means for business globally.

ARK is a global investment manager focused solely on investing in disruptive innovation. Majority Owner, Catherine

D. Wood, founded ARK in 2014 on the belief that innovation is key to growth. Rooted in over 40 years of experience, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public and private markets resulting from technological innovations centered around Artificial Intelligence, Multiomics, Robotics, Energy Storage, and Blockchain Technology. We invest in the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation.

ARK manages and sub advises global equity portfolios across a variety of investment vehicles, including a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), a venture fund, mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and private funds. Our investments are backed by an open research ecosystem designed to identify innovations with the potential for long‑term growth. ARK has greater than $30 billion assets under management.

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* This is a Full‑Time position in our St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Headquarters.

We expect you to conduct high‑quality research to support our AI strategy. You will explore advancements in large language models, AI‑driven software platforms, and next‑generation computing infrastructure. Your work will span evaluating public and private companies, analyzing adoption curves, and understanding the broader societal and economic implications of AI. Your work will directly influence our venture capital and public investment decisions, and you will collaborate with ARK’s Next Generation Internet team.

As part of ARK’s forward‑thinking culture, you will also help automate research processes and leverage AI tools to enhance data analysis, modeling, and insight generation.

• Will support deal sourcing, communications with companies, and investment underwriting.
• Will be embedded within the research team with the goal of extending our research & investment activities, particularly in the private markets.
• Support ARK’s portfolios by combining top‑down thematic research and bottom‑up fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.
• Work closely with ARK’s Internet team to identify innovative technologies, model the growth rates and sizes of new markets, estimate unit economics, and assess the competitive landscape.
• Research and identify private companies that are the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation, focused on the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, including enterprise software‑as‑a‑service, infrastructure‑as‑a‑service, and semiconductors.

Form investment recommendations based on your research to share with ARK’s Analysts, Directors of Research, Chief Futurist, and ARK’s CEO & CIO.

Meet experts on your research topics through X, conferences, ARK calls, or other channels and engage with them, learn from them, and share ARK’s published research. Actively gather feedback on your work through X and other online platforms.

• You are a clear communicator, have good organizational skills and quick to take initiative.
• You are tech forward, have coding skills/ automation experience is a strong plus.
• You combine technical fluency with strong analytical and financial skills.
• You are a strong storyteller, able to bridge technical concepts with market and cultural implications.
• You are an independent thinker who challenges consensus and explores contrarian ideas.
• BONUS:
  Programming, data science, or engineering background.

The best way for us to get to know you is through examples of your work. This may be a marketing project, presentation or blog. If you don’t have an example of your work, we would encourage you to create one.  to apply.

When you apply, please send your work sample, resume, and a brief cover letter to ARK.