Actuarial Specialist for AI-Driven Risk & Pricing

Mercor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 64,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We are hiring Insurance Actuarial Specialists to design realistic pricing, reserving, and risk-modeling scenarios, and to evaluate model outputs against actuarial standards.

Actuaries across life, health, P&C, pensions, and enterprise risk are welcome. You'll design scenarios, create pricing models, reserve reviews, and actuarial memos, while grading AI responses for accuracy and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in any practice area.
• Understanding of how methods, assumptions, and data drive pricing, reserves, and valuation.
• Ability to select a method, run the analysis, and present a defensible conclusion with rationale.
• Demonstrated strong quantitative analysis, balanced judgment and attention to detail.
• Distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting or formal legal/financial 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 high-quality reference responses at experienced actuarial-professional level.
• Grade AI-generated responses for methodological soundness and calculation accuracy.
• Identify flaws, errors, unsupported assumptions, and gaps in documented rationale.
• Provide written feedback to the research team to improve model behavior.

Skills

Actuarial analysis

Education

ASA/ACAS/FCAS credential or equivalent

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SQL

Prophet/Emblem/Radar/ResQ

Job description

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We are hiring Insurance Actuarial Specialists to design realistic pricing, reserving, and risk-modeling scenarios, and to evaluate model outputs against actuarial standards.

Actuaries across life, health, P&C, pensions, and enterprise risk are welcome. You'll design scenarios, create pricing models, reserve reviews, and actuarial memos, while grading AI responses for accuracy and