Insurance Actuarial Specialist

🔥 14 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

📊 Actuary

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Mercor

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Design realistic pricing, reserving, and risk-modeling scenarios • Create scenarios involving ratemaking, loss reserving, valuation, experience studies, assumption-setting, and profitability analysis • Produce 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 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 to improve model behavior • Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions • Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in any practice area • Understanding of 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 • Ability to distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting decisions and formal financial or legal advice • Bonus: ASA, FSA, ACAS, FCAS, CERA, MAAA, or comparable credential, or actively passing exams • Bonus: Experience across multiple practice areas or specialty lines • Bonus: Reinsurance, capital modeling, or enterprise risk experience • Bonus: Proficiency with R, Python, SAS, SQL, or actuarial software (Prophet, Emblem, Radar, ResQ) • Bonus: Experience with regulatory filings, rate filings, or statements of actuarial opinion • Minimum availability of 20 hours per week, ideally 40+ • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • Mercor is unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Work on your own schedule • Payments weekly via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Collaborate with leading researchers • Competitive pay • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral payments of up to $320 for each successful referral, subject to limits