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Underwriting Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $80/hr
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring an Insurance Underwriting Specialist on a remote contract at $80/hour, for 20 to 40 hours per week. The work is designing underwriting scenarios and grading AI-generated responses against rubrics for AI research labs. Applicants complete an AI interview after uploading a resume.
Pay:
$80 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Design underwriting scenarios on risk, exposure, terms and pricing
- Write expert reference underwriting decisions and rationales
- Grade AI responses against structured rubrics
- Give written feedback to improve model behavior
Requirements summary:
- 2+ years of professional insurance underwriting experience (any line)
- Understanding of policy provisions, exclusions, endorsements and rating factors
- Ability to articulate defensible decisions with documented rationale
- Excellent written analysis and attention to detail
- Preferred: CPCU, CLU, AINS, ARM, AU, FALU or equivalent credential
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Business operations |
| 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: Insurance Underwriting Specialists
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic scenarios involving risk selection, exposure analysis, policy terms, exclusions, endorsements, pricing, and coverage determinations.
- Create work products such as underwriting decisions, risk assessments, rating rationales, coverage analyses, and referral write-ups.
- Write "golden" reference responses at experienced underwriting-professional quality.
- Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for risk-selection accuracy, provision interpretation, pricing correctness, and sound judgment.
- Identify misread policy language, flawed risk classifications, incorrect pricing math, and gaps in documented rationale.
- Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional experience in insurance underwriting (any line).
- Understand how policy provisions, exclusions, endorsements, and rating factors determine coverage and price.
- Can weigh risk, exposure, and financial evidence and articulate a defensible decision with a documented rationale.
- Demonstrate excellent written analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.
- Can distinguish underwriting decisions from sales/agent recommendations and from formal legal advice.
Preferred
- CPCU, CLU, AINS, ARM, AU, FALU, or comparable industry credential.
- Experience across multiple lines of business or specialty risks.
- Reinsurance, treaty, or facultative underwriting experience.
- Actuarial, pricing, or catastrophe-modeling exposure.
- Experience with regulatory filings, compliance, or audit review.
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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