Disability Claims & Underwriting Specialist for AI Reasoning

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We are hiring Disability Claims & Underwriting Specialists to design realistic disability adjudication scenarios, evaluate model outputs, and ensure alignment with industry standards.

You will produce claim determinations, benefit calculations, and medical/vocational summaries, while grading AI responses and providing actionable feedback to improve model behavior.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in disability claims adjudication, disability underwriting, vocational rehabilitation, or leave and absence management.
• Familiarity with program types such as group short-term/long-term disability or statutory disability is a plus.
• Ability to weigh medical, occupational and financial evidence with documented rationale.

Responsibilities

• Design disability claims scenarios, elimination periods, and definitions.
• Create determinations, benefit calculations, and evidence summaries.
• Grade AI-generated responses against rubrics for accuracy and fairness.
• Identify misapplied definitions, missed offsets, or errors in benefit calculations.
• Provide written feedback to improve model behavior and documentation.

Skills

Disability claims

Underwriting

Vocational rehabilitation

Leave management

Job description

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on insurance reasoning data. We are hiring Disability Claims & Underwriting Specialists to design realistic disability adjudication scenarios, evaluate model outputs, and ensure alignment with industry standards.

You will produce claim determinations, benefit calculations, and medical/vocational summaries, while grading AI responses and providing actionable feedback to improve model behavior.