[Hiring] Surety Underwriter @Mercor

Role Description

• 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

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Hourly contractor compensation of $80/hour.
• Paid upon successful onboarding completion.

Application Process

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

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome .
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected] .