Role brief
Job description
**Compensation: all experts are paid a flat $800 upon successful completion of the onboarding process, which we estimate takes approximately 10 hours. After successfully completing onboarding, you will be converted to $80/hour.**
## 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