First seen by our source: 21 days ago
Surety Underwriter - Bond Specialist
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring a remote contract Surety Underwriter & Bond Specialist at $800/hour for 20 to 40 hours per week. The role designs and grades surety scenarios, writes reference responses on bonds, capacity and credit judgment, and gives feedback to improve AI model behaviour.
Responsibilities:
- Design bid, performance and payment bond scenarios
- Write expert reference responses on surety work products
- Grade AI responses against structured rubrics
- Identify errors in financial statements and capacity reasoning
- Provide written feedback to the research team
Requirements summary:
- 2+ years in surety underwriting, bond production or surety claims
- Experience with at least one bond category
- Ability to read contractor financial statements and WIP schedules
- Understanding of the three-party surety relationship
- Excellent written reasoning and attention to detail
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Finance & accounting |
| 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: Surety Underwriter & Bond Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $800/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic scenarios involving bid, performance, and payment bonds. Include single and aggregate capacity, work-in-progress analysis, indemnity, collateral, commercial and court bonds, and bond-default resolution.
- Create work products such as capacity recommendations, credit analyses, bond approvals and declinations, obligee form reviews, indemnity requirements, and claim-resolution strategies.
- Write "golden" reference responses at experienced surety-professional quality.
- Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for credit judgment, capacity reasoning, contract and bond-form accuracy, and default-resolution realism.
- Identify misread financial statements, overstated capacity, confusion between surety and insurance obligations, mishandled obligee requirements, and unrealistic default or recovery strategies.
- Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior. Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional experience in surety underwriting, bond production, surety claims, or contract-surety credit analysis.
- Experience with at least one bond category, such as contract surety, commercial surety, court and fiduciary bonds, license and permit bonds, or subdivision bonds.
- Ability to read contractor financial statements and work-in-progress schedules and translate them into capacity and credit conclusions.
- Understanding of the three-party surety relationship and how indemnity, collateral, and subrogation differ from insurance loss payment.
- Excellent written reasoning, commercial and credit judgment, and high attention to detail.
- Ability to distinguish surety credit decisions from property-casualty risk underwriting and ordinary claim adjudication.
Preferred
- AFSB, CPCU, ARM, CPA, or comparable designation.
- Both underwriting and surety-claims experience.
- Experience with AIA and other standard bond forms, or with public-works statutory bond requirements.
- Contractor default resolution: takeover, tender, financing, or completion-agreement experience.
- SBA bond guarantee, funds control, or small and emerging contractor program experience.
Start Date
- Immediately; 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: 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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