Insurance Actuarial Specialist - Expert

Mercor; England; Remote; GBP 68,000 - 97,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Insurance Actuarial Specialist on a contract basis. This remote role requires 20–40 hours per week and offers engaging work on pricing, reserves, and valuation in collaboration with a research team. You will develop pricing models, conduct experience studies, and prepare actuarial memoranda while ensuring rigor and defensible conclusions. The position starts immediately and involves evaluating AI-generated outputs against actuarial standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in any practice area.
• Understanding 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 documented rationale.
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.

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.

Skills

Actuarial experience

Pricing & reserving knowledge

Documented rationale

Attention to detail

Analytical judgment

Education

Actuarial credentials

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SQL

Prophet

Emblem

Radar

ResQ

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.