[Hiring] Catastrophe & Exposure Management Expert for AI Research Project @Aptura

Role Description

Aptura works with leading foundational AI labs to bring institutional finance expertise directly into AI model development. Founded by ex-Lazard and Partners Group professionals, we operate from London and San Francisco.

You’ve built deep expertise in catastrophe modeling, exposure management, portfolio aggregation, or reinsurance analytics, and produced work that drives real decisions. Now that expertise has a new application: shaping how frontier AI models reason through complex insurance problems.

• Design realistic catastrophe and exposure management tasks: catastrophe modeling exercises, accumulation assessments, portfolio exposure reviews, and reinsurance exposure decisions without clean answers.
• Write evaluation rubrics that reflect how experienced catastrophe and exposure professionals reason through data quality, model assumptions, accumulation risk, PML interpretation, and reinsurance implications.
• Review AI-generated catastrophe analyses, exposure assessments, and portfolio risk evaluations, identifying where models misinterpret catastrophe outputs, overlook accumulation risks, or misuse exposure data.
• Build reference catastrophe studies and benchmark exposure analyses that set the standard models to be tested.
• Communicate catastrophe risk assessments, exposure judgments, and rationale clearly in writing.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in catastrophe modeling or exposure management at an insurer, reinsurer, broker, or modeling vendor.
• Managed catastrophe exposure, accumulation analysis, PML reporting, or portfolio risk assessments that informed underwriting or reinsurance decisions.
• Hands-on experience with Moody’s RMS and/or Verisk Touchstone, and familiarity with PML, AEP, and OEP analysis.
• ACII, a catastrophe modeling qualification, or a numerate degree (preferred, not required).
• Ability to explain what catastrophe model outputs do and do not tell you clearly enough to teach the reasoning, not just the outcome.

Compensation

$80–$200 per hour, aligned with expertise, scope, and impact; exceptional or highly specialised expertise can go higher. Ongoing engagements are typically structured as a monthly retainer rather than on an hourly basis.