AI-Driven Insurance Risk Analyst

Obsidian; Greater London; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor, in partnership with a leading AI lab, is hiring P&C Actuaries and Portfolio Risk Managers to design pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-management scenarios for advanced insurance AI applications. You will grade AI outputs, critique assumptions, and deliver clear written feedback to improve model behavior.

Role offers flexible hours (minimum 20 per week) and rolling applications. Strong analytical skills, 2+ years of relevant experience, and proficiency with spreadsheets and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk management.
• Experience with quantitative analysis using premium, exposure, claim, loss, or reserve data.
• Ability to explain methods, assumptions, and implications clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong written communication and attention to detail.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and at least one analytical or statistical tool.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving loss costs, rate indications, trend, development, credibility, segmentation, reserving, profitability, capital, catastrophe exposure, and portfolio concentration
• Create work products such as pricing analyses, reserve reviews, portfolio diagnostics, assumption critiques, sensitivity analyses, and management recommendations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial and portfolio-risk quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for mathematical accuracy, assumption quality, methodology, interpretation, and communication
• Identify calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, misuse of actuarial methods, confusing correlation with causation, and recommendations not supported by the data
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

Skills

Actuarial analysis

Quantitative reasoning

Communication

Spreadsheet proficiency

Tools

SQL

R

Python

SAS

Job description

Mercor, in partnership with a leading AI lab, is hiring P&C Actuaries and Portfolio Risk Managers to design pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-management scenarios for advanced insurance AI applications. You will grade AI outputs, critique assumptions, and deliver clear written feedback to improve model behavior.

Role offers flexible hours (minimum 20 per week) and rolling applications. Strong analytical skills, 2+ years of relevant experience, and proficiency with spreadsheets and