Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: P&C Actuary & Portfolio Risk Manager
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional experience in P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk management.
• Experience in quantitative analysis using insurance premium, exposure, claim, loss, or reserve data.
• Understanding of the difference between account-level underwriting judgment and portfolio-level actuarial analysis.
• Ability to explain methods, assumptions, limitations, and business implications clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong quantitative reasoning, excellent written communication, and high attention to detail.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and at least one analytical or statistical tool.

Preferred

• 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.

Start Date

• Immediate start ; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check:
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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