The infrastructure behind the AI boom — data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets — has to be built and insured.
Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners — Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others — to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
You'll design and develop the FastAPI service, in collaboration with engineers, that allows the python-native actuarial team to implement rating logic for multiple lines of business that make account-level pricing coherent and extensible to new sectors & new coverages.
Data integration architecture (0-20%).
WHAT YOU BRING REQUIRED ACAS or near-ACAS exam progress.
You understand ISO rate plans, large account pricing concepts,
Production Python experience.
You've written production python for 2+ years that other people depend on: pricing tools, data pipelines, internal APIs, analytical applications.
Experience designing or working within rating engine architectures.
You know how commercial and specialty lines (e.g., CGL, Business Auto, Workers' Comp, Excess, Commercial Property) rate plans are structured and you have implemented them in python.
Experience with hx Renew or a similar Python-based pricing platform.
You've built or maintained ETL/ELT workflows, wrangled messy external data, or supported ML/GLM model deployment.
You don't need to be a data engineer, but you should be comfortable with orchestration concepts, columnar formats, and data quality tooling.
Experience
You have 4+ years of P&C commercial lines actuarial experience.
Benefits
WHAT WE DO Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered.
We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting.
We're building: - Faster decisions - Smarter, more accurate pricing - Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices We're not just modernizing insurance products.
THE ROLE You will help design, build, and maintain the internal pricing service and data models that allows actuaries to deploy new python-based rating engines and allows insurance product heads to directly configure our appetite as Shepherd grows into new sectors, coverages, and lines of business.
You will ensure Shepherd’s platform serves the actuarial and insurance product use case.
You will design and develop a service that enables Insurance Product heads to update product configurations (coverage options, pricing parameters).
Hands-on predictive modeling for insurance pricing.
BENEFITS 🏥 Premium Healthcare 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision 🥕 Fertility
benefits and family building support 🏖️ Unlimited PTO Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform 🥗 Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks We work together, and enjoy meals together too 🖥️ SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA Offices 📚 Professional Development Access to premium coaching, including leadership development 🏦 Competitive 401(k) Plan 🐶 Dog-friendly office Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office
Contact
OUR INVESTORS In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justindlevine29_today-were-announcing-our-42m-series-b-activity-7442200922291630080-z1gw?rcm=ACoAAAkOMEwBRnAAXmdnQcaOJeioCu6VCqR6Gzc&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world.
Our investors: - Intact Private Capital https://www.intactfc.com/about-us/intact-ventures - Spark Capital https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - Costanoa Ventures https://costanoa.vc/ - Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/ - Susa Ventures https://www.susaventures.com/ - And several others OUR TEAM We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together.
Check out our About https://www.shepherdinsurance.com/about page to learn more.
Additional details
Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world — protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.
But traditional carriers weren't built for this speed: - Complex commercial construction projects routinely wait weeks for a single quote - Legacy carriers rely on static applications and disconnected systems - Brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions We built Shepherd to solve that.
We're closing in on the first fully agentic submission in the industry — email in, price out, no human intervention until the last mile.
With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound.
We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building.
You are in the codebase, in the architecture discussions, in the PR reviews.
The split is roughly: 30–40% of your time writing code yourself, and 60–70% designing systems, reviewing implementations, and guiding adjacent engineering decisions with actuarial context.
This is an individual contributor role for someone with real actuarial depth and
experience deploying versioned, well-tested specialty and commercial lines rating engines to production.