Remote Actuarial Analyst (Contract) - $80/hr, 20-40h/wk

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Insurance Actuarial Specialist for a remote contract role. The position offers 20–40 hours per week, with compensation at $80/hour.

You will design scenarios for pricing, reserves, and valuation, create pricing models and memoranda, and provide expert feedback to improve AI-driven actuarial outputs. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of actuarial experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to justify methods with clear rationale.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience.
• 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.

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

Quantitative analysis

Attention to detail

Judgment

Communication

Education

Actuarial credentials (ASA/FS/ACAS/FCAS/CERA/MAAA)

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SQL

Prophet

Emblem

Radar

ResQ

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Insurance Actuarial Specialist for a remote contract role. The position offers 20–40 hours per week, with compensation at $80/hour.

You will design scenarios for pricing, reserves, and valuation, create pricing models and memoranda, and provide expert feedback to improve AI-driven actuarial outputs. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of actuarial experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to justify methods with clear rationale.