What this role asks for
- 2+ yrs experience
- Python
- SQL
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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 P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio…”
- Python: “…modeling, or rate-filing experience • Proficiency with SQL, R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms • Experience presenting results to underwriting,…”
- SQL: “…predictive modeling, or rate-filing experience • Proficiency with SQL, R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms • Experience presenting results to…”
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 P&C Actuaries and Portfolio Risk Managers to design realistic pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-management scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established actuarial standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons quantitatively about insurance risk.
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We welcome pricing actuaries, reserving actuaries, portfolio analysts, catastrophe-risk professionals, and actuarial managers from carriers, reinsurers, MGAs, and consulting firms.
What You'll Do
• Design realistic scenarios involving loss costs, rate indications, trend, development, credibility, segmentation, reserving, profitability, capital, catastrophe exposure, and portfolio concentration
• Create work products such as pricing analyses, reserve reviews, portfolio diagnostics, assumption critiques, sensitivity analyses, and management recommendations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial and portfolio-risk quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for mathematical accuracy, assumption quality, methodology, interpretation, and communication
• Identify calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, misuse of actuarial methods, confusing correlation with causation, and recommendations not supported by the data
• 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 P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk management
• Have performed quantitative analysis using insurance premium, exposure, claim, loss, or reserve data
• Understand the difference between account-level underwriting judgment and portfolio-level actuarial analysis
• Can explain methods, assumptions, limitations, and business implications clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Demonstrate strong quantitative reasoning, excellent written communication, and high attention to detail
• Are proficient with spreadsheets and at least one analytical or statistical tool
Bonus Qualifications
• ACAS, FCAS, or active progress toward CAS credentials
• Experience with personal, commercial, specialty, or reinsurance portfolios
• Catastrophe modeling, capital modeling, predictive modeling, or rate-filing experience
• Proficiency with SQL, R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms
• Experience presenting results to underwriting, finance, claims, or executive stakeholders
Role Highlights
• Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
• Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis
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