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Forward Deployed 'Actuarial' Engineer

Tesora · San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US · On-site

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About Tesora

Frontier AI for Actuaries. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Actuarial Engineer, you sit at the intersection of our product and our customers. You will embed with design partners, translate messy real-world actuarial problems into product, and ship the workflows that get used in production. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to be close to both the customer and the code. You will work closely with our founders and former chief actuary.

What they're looking for

  • Work directly with actuaries and underwriters at specialty carriers to map their rating, reserving, and pricing workflows
  • Build and customize models, data pipelines, and product features that solve those workflows
  • Turn customer feedback into product direction alongside our founding team
  • Own deployments end to end, from first conversation to production usage
More about this role

Tesora is building agents for actuaries, starting with our AI-native actuarial workbench for specialty P&C carriers and MGAs. We are backed by Y Combinator and leading AI investors, and we work hands-on with carriers and MGAs to rebuild the underwriting and actuarial workflows that the industry still runs on spreadsheets.

As a Forward Deployed Actuarial Engineer, you sit at the intersection of our product and our customers. You will embed with design partners, translate messy real-world actuarial problems into product, and ship the workflows that get used in production. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to be close to both the customer and the code.

  • Work directly with actuaries and underwriters at specialty carriers to map their rating, reserving, and pricing workflows
  • Build and customize models, data pipelines, and product features that solve those workflows
  • Turn customer feedback into product direction alongside our founding team
  • Own deployments end to end, from first conversation to production usage
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort moving fast across the stack
  • Genuine interest in insurance, actuarial science, or quantitative modeling...

Read the full posting on Tesora's site ↗

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