What this role asks for
- 2+ yrs experience
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- 2+ yrs experience: “…hours and calibration sessions You're a Good Fit If You • Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy…”
The role, as Mercor describes it
Compensation: all experts are paid a flat $800 upon successful completion of the onboarding process, which we estimate takes approximately 10 hours. After successfully completing onboarding, you will be converted to $80/hour.
About the Role
Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic advisory, underwriting and policy-service scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mortality risk, long-horizon guarantees and suitability.
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We welcome life and annuity producers, advisors, life underwriters, new-business and policy-service professionals, product specialists, and suitability or replacement reviewers from carriers, brokerage general agencies, IMOs, and independent practices.
What You'll Do
• Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, medical and financial underwriting, table ratings, replacements and 1035 exchanges, policy loans, surrenders, lapse and reinstatement
• Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, suitability rationales, replacement analyses and policy-service determinations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced life and annuity practitioner quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for product accuracy, suitability, mathematical correctness and disclosure adequacy
• Identify unsupported illustration assumptions, unsuitable recommendations, confusion between product types or tax treatments, and failures to apply replacement or disclosure requirements
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions
You're a Good Fit If You
• Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review
• Have worked with at least one product family, such as term, whole life, universal or indexed universal life, variable life, or fixed, indexed and variable annuities
• Understand how policy mechanics (cost of insurance, crediting, caps and participation rates, surrender charges, riders and guarantees) drive long-term outcomes
• Can explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly, and recognize when licensed or legal review is required
• Demonstrate excellent written communication, quantitative care and high attention to detail
• Can distinguish product and suitability judgment from investment advice and formal tax or legal advice
Bonus Qualifications
• CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, or comparable designation
• Active or previously held life and health producer license, or securities registration
• Medical or financial life underwriting experience, including APS review, lab interpretation or reinsurance referral
• Experience with buy-sell, key-person, estate-planning, premium-finance or executive-benefit cases
• Experience with suitability, Reg BI, or state replacement and disclosure review
Role Highlights
• Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
• Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis
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$80/hrMercor · Life & Annuity Specialist
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