Surety Underwriter

Role Overview

Apply your surety expertise to help improve AI reasoning in bonding, credit analysis, bond forms, and contractor-default resolution. You will create realistic surety scenarios, assess AI-generated work against market standards, and provide feedback that strengthens model judgment across contractor capacity, obligee requirements, and claims outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scenarios covering bid, performance, and payment bonds; single and aggregate capacity; work-in-progress analysis; indemnity and collateral; commercial and court bonds; and bond-default resolution.
• Create professional work products, including capacity recommendations, credit analyses, bond approvals or declinations, obligee form reviews, indemnity requirements, and claim-resolution strategies.
• Write high-quality reference responses reflecting experienced surety practice.
• Evaluate AI responses using structured rubrics for credit judgment, capacity reasoning, contract and bond-form accuracy, and realistic default resolution.
• Identify errors such as misread financial statements, overstated capacity, confusion between surety and insurance obligations, mishandled obligee requirements, and impractical default or recovery strategies.
• Provide written feedback to support model improvements.
• Take part in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of professional experience in surety underwriting, surety claims, or contract-surety credit analysis.
• Experience with at least one bond category, including contract surety, commercial surety, court and fiduciary bonds, license and permit bonds, or subdivision bonds.
• Ability to interpret contractor financial statements and work-in-progress schedules and translate them into capacity and credit conclusions.
• Understanding of the three-party surety relationship and how indemnity, collateral, and subrogation differ from insurance loss payment.
• Excellent written reasoning, commercial and credit judgment, and close attention to detail.
• Ability to distinguish surety credit decisions from property-casualty risk underwriting and standard claim adjudication.

Preferred Qualifications

• AFSB, CPCU, ARM, CPA, or a comparable designation.
• Experience in both underwriting and surety claims.
• Experience with AIA or other standard bond forms, or public-works statutory bond requirements.
• Contractor-default resolution experience involving takeover, tender, financing, or completion agreements.
• Experience with SBA bond guarantees, funds control, or programs for small and emerging contractors.

Work Terms

• Remote hourly role open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
• Minimum commitment of 20 hours per week, with 40 or more hours per week preferred.
• The role is available to start immediately, and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Complete an onboarding process estimated at approximately 10 hours, including applicable office hours and calibration activities.

Compensation

• Receive a flat $800 upon successful completion of onboarding.
• After onboarding is successfully completed, compensation is $80 per hour.