AI-Driven Insurance Risk & Portfolio Analyst

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We're hiring actuaries and portfolio risk managers to design pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-management scenarios, and to evaluate model outputs against actuarial standards.

We welcome actuaries from carriers, reinsurers, MGAs, and consulting firms who bring 2+ years of P&C experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving loss costs, rate indications, trend, development, credibility, reserving, profitability, capital, catastrophe exposure, and portfolio concentration.
• Create pricing analyses, reserve reviews, portfolio diagnostics, assumption critiques, sensitivity analyses, and management recommendations.
• Write high-quality, reference responses at experienced actuarial and portfolio-risk levels.
• Grade AI-generated responses for mathematical accuracy, assumptions, methodology, interpretation, and communication.
• Identify calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, and misuses of actuarial methods; flag data-driven issues.
• Provide written feedback to help the research team improve model behavior.
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions.

Skills

P&C actuarial experience

Quantitative analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

SQL

R

Python

SAS

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We're hiring actuaries and portfolio risk managers to design pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-management scenarios, and to evaluate model outputs against actuarial standards.

We welcome actuaries from carriers, reinsurers, MGAs, and consulting firms who bring 2+ years of P&C experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse