Insurance SME - Underwriting Expert

Mercor
New York, NY
Job Description
Role Overview

The Insurance SME - Underwriting Expert will guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in underwriting, claims, and risk-assessment reasoning. They will design challenging, domain-relevant insurance tasks and evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics.

What You Will Do

The successful candidate will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance. They will develop and refine evaluation guidelines and scoring rubrics specific to insurance tasks.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of dedicated professional experience in insurance, prior experience evaluating LLM/AI model outputs, and demonstrable career progression.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of dedicated professional experience in insurance
  • Prior hands-on experience evaluating LLM/AI model outputs against rubrics or structured scoring criteria
  • Demonstrable career progression (e.g., Underwriter → Senior Underwriter → VP of Underwriting)
  • Ability to engage reliably for at least 35 hours/week during weekdays

Benefits

  • Compensation: $60–$80/hour
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