Life/Health Actuaries at Mercor

Role Overview Mercor is collaborating with a global insurance and financial services client to support actuarial modeling processes via high-quality data preparation. We are seeking actuarial professionals with experience in seriatim data extraction, cleansing, and validation from life insurance policy administration systems. This opportunity centers around ensuring reliable, audit-ready datasets for valuation, modeling, and financial reporting workflows. This is a short-term, project-based opportunity with high autonomy and clearly scoped deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Extract policy-level data for a given valuation date from systems such as FAST, OIPA, or Sapiens.
• Validate record counts against control totals and identify missing or inconsistent fields.
• Reconcile in-force movements between periods, including new issues and terminations.
• Identify and flag policies with anomalous data for manual review.
• Map product codes to actuarial model inputs and document data assumptions.
• Deliver a clean, formatted dataset suitable for actuarial projection software.
  
  
  

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in actuarial data processing or valuation support.
• Familiarity with life insurance policy administration systems (e.g., OIPA, FAST, LIFE/400).
• Proficiency with Excel and data quality tools; basic scripting knowledge (SQL, Python) is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of actuarial data structures.
• Ability to clearly document data anomalies and reconciliation logic.
  
  
  

More About The Opportunity

• Remote and asynchronous — control your own work schedule
• Expected commitment: min 30 hours/week
• Project duration: :6 weeks
  
  
  

Compensation & Contract Terms

• $75–100/hour
• Independent contractor arrangement
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect
  
  
  

Application Process

• Submit your resume followed by domain expertise interview and short form
  
  
  

About Mercor

• Mercor is a talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations.
• Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
• Thousands of professionals across domains like law, creatives, engineering, and research have joined Mercor to work on frontier projects shaping the next era of AI.