Disability Claims – Underwriting Specialist

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About the role

  • Disability insurance specialists creating adjudication and underwriting scenarios for Mercor’s AI-lab partner. Evaluating AI outputs against industry standards and improving model reasoning.

Responsibilities

  • Design realistic scenarios involving short- and long-term disability claims, elimination periods, own-occupation and any-occupation definitions, residual and partial disability, offsets, recurrent disability, and claim duration management
  • Create claim determinations, benefit calculations, medical and vocational evidence summaries, transferable-skills analyses, return-to-work plans, and appeal decisions
  • Write “golden” reference responses at experienced disability-professional quality
  • Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for definitional accuracy, evidentiary support, benefit-calculation correctness, and procedural fairness
  • Identify misapplied disability definitions, unsupported functional conclusions, missed offsets, incorrect benefit math, and failures to document the administrative record
  • Provide written feedback to the research team to improve model behavior
  • Participate in onboarding office hours and calibration sessions

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional experience in disability claims adjudication, disability underwriting, vocational rehabilitation, or leave and absence management
  • Experience with at least one program type: group short-term disability, group long-term disability, individual disability income, statutory disability, or life waiver of premium
  • Understanding of contract definitions, elimination periods, offsets, pre-existing-condition provisions, and maximum benefit periods
  • Ability to weigh medical, occupational, and financial evidence and articulate a defensible determination with documented rationale
  • Excellent written analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish claim adjudication from treating-provider clinical decisions and formal legal advice
  • Bonus: CRC, CDMS, CCM, CPDM, RN, or comparable clinical or vocational credential
  • Experience with ERISA administrative records, appeals, or litigation support
  • Individual disability income underwriting, including occupation class and financial underwriting
  • Social Security, workers compensation, or other-income offset coordination experience
  • Experience with FMLA, state leave programs, or ADA accommodation interaction
  • Remote location eligibility limited to the United States, Canada, or United Kingdom

Benefits

  • $800 per task
  • Minimum 20 hours per week (ideally 40+)
  • Flexible remote work
  • Up to $250 for each successful referral
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$800 per day

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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