AI Insurance Underwriting Specialist - Risk & Pricing

Mercor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Insurance Underwriting Specialists to design realistic underwriting and risk-selection scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about risk assessment, policy provisions, pricing, and coverage decisions.

You bring 2+ years of underwriting experience across lines and can weigh risk, exposure, and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional underwriting experience across lines.
• Ability to weigh risk, exposure and financial evidence with rationale.
• Excellent written analysis and balanced judgment.
• Distinguish underwriting from sales advice and legal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic underwriting scenarios for risk selection, pricing and coverage determinations.
• Create underwriting decisions, risk analyses, pricing rationales and coverage analyses.
• Write high-quality, expert-level reference responses.
• Grade AI-generated responses for risk-selection accuracy and pricing correctness.
• Identify misread policy language, flawed risk classifications and gaps in rationale.
• Provide feedback to the research team to improve model behavior.
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions.

Skills

Underwriting experience

Policy provisions understanding

Risk assessment

Written analysis

Attention to detail

Education

CPCU, CLU, AINS, ARM, AU, FALU or equivalent

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Insurance Underwriting Specialists to design realistic underwriting and risk-selection scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about risk assessment, policy provisions, pricing, and coverage decisions.

You bring 2+ years of underwriting experience across lines and can weigh risk, exposure, and