First seen by our source: 19 days ago
P&C Underwriter - Risk Specialist
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring a Multiline P&C Underwriter on a remote contract at $80 per hour, for 20 to 40 hours a week. The role builds realistic underwriting scenarios and grades AI-generated underwriting responses to train AI models. It requires at least two years of professional P&C underwriting experience.
Pay:
$80 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Design underwriting scenarios for new business, renewals and exposure analysis
- Write golden reference underwriting responses to guide AI outputs
- Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics
- Identify unsupported assumptions and inappropriate underwriting decisions
- Provide written feedback to the research team
Requirements summary:
- 2+ years of professional P&C underwriting experience
- Experience in personal lines, commercial property or professional liability
- Understanding of the underwriting lifecycle from submission to nonrenewal
- Strong written reasoning and sound risk judgment
- CPCU, AU, ARM or comparable designation preferred
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- 2026-10-18
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- 2026-10-18
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Legal & compliance |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Hours per week | 30 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
- LinkedIn followers
- 654,507
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 5,250
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California 94105, US
- Business categories
- Employment
- Software
- Recruiting
- Data Collection and Labeling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Other recorded names
- Mercor
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 483,600,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,626 |
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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: Multiline P&C Underwriter
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic underwriting scenarios involving new business, renewals, exposure analysis, and risk-improvement requirements.
- Create underwriting assessments, quote rationales, and declination explanations to support model training.
- Write "golden" reference responses at experienced underwriter quality to guide AI model outputs.
- Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for technical accuracy and adherence to guidelines.
- Identify unsupported assumptions and inappropriate acceptance or declination decisions in AI outputs.
- Provide written feedback to the research team to improve model behavior and performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional P&C underwriting experience.
- Experience underwriting major segments like personal lines, commercial property, or professional liability.
- Understanding of the underwriting lifecycle from submission to nonrenewal.
- Ability to explain how account characteristics and market conditions affect underwriting decisions.
- Strong written reasoning, sound risk judgment, and high attention to detail.
- Ability to separate underwriting decisions from claims handling and brokerage advice.
Preferred
- CPCU, AU, ARM, or comparable insurance designation.
- Multiline underwriting authority.
- Experience with E&S, MGA/MGU, Lloyd's, or program-business.
- Catastrophe-exposed property or high-severity casualty experience.
- Experience with small commercial, middle-market, national-account, or high-net-worth segments.
Start Date
- Immediate; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor, Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.
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: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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