Actuarial Analyst - Fully Remote

Mercor; Toronto; Remote; CAD 133,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, a connectors company for elite creative and technical talent, seeks Insurance Actuarial Specialists for a remote contract. Start immediately with 20–40 hours per week at $80 per hour.

Design, validate pricing, reserves, and valuation work products; and ensure rigorous analyses and precise documentation. We value expert communication, method selection, and the ability to critique AI-generated outputs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in any practice area.
• Understand how methods, assumptions, and data drive pricing, reserves, and valuation.
• Ability to select an appropriate method, run the analysis, and articulate a defensible conclusion with rationale.
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.
• Distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting and from formal financial or legal advice.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving ratemaking, loss reserving, valuation, experience studies, assumption-setting, and profitability analysis.
• Create work products such as pricing models, reserve reviews, actuarial memoranda, technical assumptions, and results summaries.
• Write 'golden' reference responses at experienced actuarial-professional quality.
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for methodological soundness, calculation accuracy, assumption justification, and clear communication.
• Identify flawed methods, calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, and gaps in documented rationale.
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.

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: Insurance Actuarial Specialists
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving ratemaking, loss reserving, valuation, experience studies, assumption-setting, and profitability analysis.
• Create work products such as pricing models, reserve reviews, actuarial memoranda, technical assumptions, and results summaries.
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial-professional quality.
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for methodological soundness, calculation accuracy, assumption justification, and clear communication.
• Identify flawed methods, calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, and gaps in documented rationale.
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience (any practice area).
• Understand how methods, assumptions, and data drive pricing, reserves, and valuation.
• Ability to select an appropriate method, run the analysis, and articulate a defensible conclusion with a documented rationale.
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.
• Ability to distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting decisions and from formal financial or legal advice.

Preferred

• ASA, FSA, ACAS, FCAS, CERA, MAAA, or comparable credential (or actively passing exams).
• Experience across multiple practice areas or specialty lines.
• Reinsurance, capital modeling, or enterprise risk experience.
• Proficiency with R, Python, SAS, SQL, or actuarial software (Prophet, Emblem, Radar, ResQ).
• Experience with regulatory filings, rate filings, or statements of actuarial opinion.

Start Date

• Immediately; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

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: [e-mail]