Life & Annuity Specialist - Advisor

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on life and annuity advisory scenarios. We seek Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic underwriting and policy-service simulations and to evaluate AI outputs for mortality risk and suitability.

You will create coverage recommendations, illustrations, underwriting assessments, and suitability rationales, while grading AI responses against structured rubrics for accuracy and disclosure adequacy.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review
• Experience with at least one life product family (term, whole life, universal life, indexed universal life, variable life, annuities)
• Ability to explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly
• Excellent written communication, numerical precision, and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, underwriting, and replacements
• Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, and policy-service determinations
• Write high-quality, practitioner-grade responses for AI evaluation
• Grade AI-generated outputs against rubrics for product accuracy and disclosure adequacy
• Identify unsupported illustration assumptions and discrepancies in product or tax treatments
• Provide written feedback to the research team to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

Job description

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality insurance reasoning data. We're hiring Life & Annuity Specialists to design realistic advisory, underwriting and policy-service scenarios, evaluate model outputs against established industry standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mortality risk, long-horizon guarantees and suitability.

We welcome life and annuity producers, advisors, life underwriters, new-business and policy-service professionals, product specialists, and suitability or replacement reviewers from carriers, brokerage general agencies, IMOs, and independent practices.

What You'll Do

• Design realistic scenarios involving needs analysis, product selection, illustrations, medical and financial underwriting, table ratings, replacements and 1035 exchanges, policy loans, surrenders, lapse and reinstatement
• Create work products such as coverage recommendations, illustration comparisons, underwriting assessments, suitability rationales, replacement analyses and policy-service determinations
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced life and annuity practitioner quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for product accuracy, suitability, mathematical correctness and disclosure adequacy
• Identify unsupported illustration assumptions, unsuitable recommendations, confusion between product types or tax treatments, and failures to apply replacement or disclosure requirements
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

You're a Good Fit If You

• Have 2+ years of professional experience in life insurance or annuity advisory, underwriting, new business, policy administration, product, or suitability review
• Have worked with at least one product family, such as term, whole life, universal or indexed universal life, variable life, or fixed, indexed and variable annuities
• Understand how policy mechanics (cost of insurance, crediting, caps and participation rates, surrender charges, riders and guarantees) drive long-term outcomes
• Can explain tax treatment and suitability considerations clearly, and recognize when licensed or legal review is required
• Demonstrate excellent written communication, quantitative care and high attention to detail
• Can distinguish product and suitability judgment from investment advice and formal tax or legal advice

Bonus Qualifications

• CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, or comparable designation
• Active or previously held life and health producer license, or securities registration
• Medical or financial life underwriting experience, including APS review, lab interpretation or reinsurance referral
• Experience with buy-sell, key-person, estate-planning, premium-finance or executive-benefit cases
• Experience with suitability, Reg BI, or state replacement and disclosure review

Role Highlights

• Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
• Role starts immediately, applications reviewed on a rolling basis