Surety Underwriter - Bond Specialist - AI Trainer

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Surety Underwriter
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving bid, performance, and payment bonds, single and aggregate capacity, work-in-progress analysis, indemnity, and collateral.
• Create work products such as capacity recommendations, credit analyses, bond approvals, and declinations.
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced surety-professional quality.
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for credit judgment, capacity reasoning, and contract accuracy.
• Identify misread financial statements, overstated capacity, and confusion between surety and insurance obligations.
• Provide written feedback to the research team to improve model behavior.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional experience in surety underwriting, surety claims, or contract-surety credit analysis.
• Experience with at least one bond category, such as contract surety or commercial surety.
• Ability to read contractor financial statements 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 high attention to detail.

Preferred

• AFSB , CPCU , ARM , CPA , or comparable designation.
• Both underwriting and surety-claims experience.
• Experience with AIA and other standard bond forms.
• Contractor default resolution experience.

Start Date

• Immediately ; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor , Paid upon successful onboarding completion .

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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