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

Role Description

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.
• You’ve 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).
• You can explain what catastrophe model outputs do and do not tell you clearly enough to teach the reasoning, not just the outcome.

Benefits

• $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.

Company 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.