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title: 'Senior Forward Deployed Underwriter at Neural Earth'
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# Senior Forward Deployed Underwriter at Neural Earth

- **Company:** Neural Earth
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth/ead853df-4aeb-4af5-b81f-4368cd6b7143

## Job description

## THE COMPANY

We are NEURAL EARTH. We bring clarity to physical risk, enabling leaders to engage with confidence and enact resilient, business-critical decisions. Today's environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected, yet the data required to understand these relationships is scattered across siloed and aging systems. Neural Earth enables operational execution, delivering a single decision intelligence platform that unifies planetary, governmental, and asset-level data, always on and always learning. This is technical work that requires patience. It requires teams willing to operate at the intersection of AI research, geospatial science, distributed systems, and enterprise deployment. It is also incredibly rewarding. Join us at Neural Earth — the next frontier is here.

## THE TEAM

Neural Earth's Revenue team is the commercial engine of the business, translating our decision intelligence platform into market opportunity, pipeline, and customer value. The team spans sales, customer success, and go-to-market strategy, in close partnership with Product and Engineering. We are building a revenue motion in a technically complex enterprise space largely from scratch, and this role is among the first two or three hires who will define how that motion actually works. You come before the Head of Sales, not after: companies that invert that order get repositioned as vendors by their own go-to-market, and Neural Earth is not doing that. The work you do here shapes how Neural Earth shows up in the market and how buyers understand what they are buying.

## THE ROLE

You have sat in the seat we are selling into. That is the job requirement. You have owned a loss ratio, defended a rate filing, and watched a vendor model tell you something about your own book that you knew was wrong, deciding what to do about it with a renewal deadline in front of you. As a Senior Forward Deployed Underwriter, you are the first Neural Earth person in the room with a Chief Actuary, and often the only one: you will sit inside a carrier's book, run Prometheus against their exposure, and explain the divergence to the person whose signature is on the rate. You report to the Head of Revenue while working closely with the CEO securing revenue. This is not a sales seat with a technical wrapper. It is a practitioner seat with commercial authority: you own the account, the technical argument, and the number. This is you!

## HOW YOU'LL BE SUCCESSFUL

- Underwrite: Alongside the customer. Embed in a carrier or reinsurer's actual book, Florida wind, California wildfire, Texas hail. Run Prometheus against their in-force exposure and find where the incumbent model is wrong, proving it at parcel resolution.
- Author: The memo that circulates when you are not in the room. A one-page memo to a Chief Actuary that diagnoses a 12-point loss ratio divergence, concedes what it should concede, and recommends a decision.
- Create: The category, account by account. You are not competing for an existing budget line, you are arguing the line should exist, and that argument only lands from someone the buyer recognizes as a peer.
- Turn: The field back into the product. What you learn inside the book becomes the roadmap, with direct, unfiltered access to engineering and the CEO, and the expectation that you use it.
- Diagnose: Divergence and say which is which out loud. You will be right sometimes and wrong sometimes, and that honesty is not a soft skill here, it is the entire sales motion.

## WHY WE VALUE YOU

- You have sat in the seat we are selling into. That is the job requirement.
- You have owned a loss ratio, defended a rate filing, and watched a vendor model tell you something about your own book that you knew was wrong.
- You bring 6 to 9 years inside a carrier, reinsurer, or MGA: pricing actuary, underwriting manager, cat modeling lead, or portfolio manager, carrier-side first, and longer than any vendor tenure.
- You have personal ownership of a loss ratio, a rate filing, or a treaty renewal, and can name the book, the state, the year, and the number.
- You have practitioner fluency in Touchstone, RMS, or AIR, as a user who distrusted an output, not as someone who sold or integrated one.
- You have a real network at the decision layer: fifteen or more Chief Actuaries, Chief Underwriting Officers, and Heads of Cat Modeling who would take your call today. Not brokers. Not IT.
- You write. You have argued a position and shown the math in a memo, a filing narrative, or a whitepaper, anything longer than a slide.
- You will be wrong in public. In the first ten minutes of a meeting, you will tell a Chief Actuary where our model diverges from theirs and why we might be the ones who are off.
- You see this as a practitioner seat with commercial authority, not a sales seat with a technical wrapper. You own the account, the technical argument, and the number.
- You are not an Account Executive who positions our platform as a data feed with a feature list to land a pilot, and you are not a cat modeling scientist without commercial instinct: you convert credibility into decisions, not just a well-respected pipeline.

## REQUIREMENTS

- 6 to 9 years inside a carrier, reinsurer, or MGA: pricing actuary, underwriting manager, cat modeling lead, or portfolio manager. Carrier-side first, longer than any vendor tenure.
- Personal ownership of a loss ratio, a rate filing, or a treaty renewal. Able to name the book, the state, the year, and the number.
- Practitioner fluency in Touchstone, RMS, or AIR, as a user who distrusted an output, not someone who sold or integrated one.
- A real network at the decision layer: fifteen or more Chief Actuaries, Chief Underwriting Officers, and Heads of Cat Modeling who would take a call today.
- Ability to accommodate travel as needed (~40%).

## COMPENSATION

The salary range for this position is $170,000 to $198,000 annually, reflecting progression within the role based on demonstrated growth and impact. At Neural Earth, we believe in pay equity, transparency, and rewarding growth. Our compensation philosophy is built on an equitable model with offers based on role, level, and expertise. This approach ensures that all employees are paid fairly and equitably without the influence of external factors like negotiation skills or previous pay history. This structure provides clarity, consistency, and alignment between pay, performance, and career development.

## BENEFITS

At Neural Earth, taking care of our people isn't just something we strive for, it's who we are. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you at every stage, whether you're advancing your career, growing your family, or planning for the future. From day one, you'll have access to:

- Competitive base compensation regardless of work location
- Company performance-based cash bonuses
- Majority employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Group Life Insurance at 2x your base salary, paid by the company
- FSA and HSA options to maximize your healthcare dollars

We know that when people feel supported, they can focus on what matters most at Neural Earth which is doing great work, growing in their careers, and making a meaningful impact.

## About Neural Earth

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neural Earth provides a unified geospatial intelligence platform that fuses AI, remote-sensing pipelines, hazard models, and large-scale spatial analytics to help organizations assess property-level risk, manage assets, and identify market opportunities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly disclosed; roles listed as US-based and Global)
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed; company operates as Neural Labs, Inc.
- **Founders**: Austin Childs (CEO, Co-Founder) and Dan Lopez (CTO, Co-Founder) [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Geospatial Intelligence, Climate Risk Analytics, AI/ML, PropTech, InsurTech
- **Target customers**: B2B — specifically insurance carriers and underwriters, real estate and asset managers, and financial institutions needing property-level risk and market intelligence
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Geospatial intelligence for a resilient world" — turning complexity from a changing planet into clarity for physical and financial systems [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)

## Products & Services
- **Neuron**: An AI and geospatial infrastructure platform for building data pipelines, running models, and deploying applications at scale [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Prometheus**: An AI-driven geospatial analytics engine for risk assessment and market response. It integrates structural, environmental, financial, and behavioral signals at the asset level to replace fragmented data sources and manual workflows. Used for faster diligence, loss compression, and selection advantage [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)
- **Risk**: A product focused on analyzing property-level risk and managing assets at scale using AI-powered geospatial capabilities [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Studio**: A product for AI-driven geospatial analysis to explore markets and identify new opportunities [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Gaia**: An AI-powered analysis engine within the platform [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Neural Earth Catalog**: Built-in data resources including remote-sensing data, hazard models, and feature extraction tools [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Closes More Than $9M in Oversubscribed Seed Round (date not specified, but recent as of 2025/2026) [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually named in available materials; partnerships extend "beyond the tech community to include business customers, academia, and non-profits" [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership)
- **Growth Signals**: Oversubscribed seed round of $9M+; launch of multiple product offerings (Neuron, Prometheus, Studio, Risk); claims that customers identify "4× more on-strategy opportunities" and "50% loss compression" in underwriting workflows [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces "up to a dozen fragmented data sources" with one integrated system [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)
- **Asset-level precision** combining structural, environmental, financial, and behavioral signals — providing "150+ variables per parcel"
- **Real-time geospatial compute** and AI-powered analytics that compress weeks of manual data collection into seconds of actionable intelligence
- **Auditable trail** for every decision, providing defensible evidence for underwriting and investment [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the unified ecosystem of geospatial intelligence products
- Expanding into insurance and real estate verticals with property-level risk assessment
- Building out AI/ML pipelines and large-scale batch processing capabilities
- Growing the team across engineering, product, sales, and climate risk domains

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Team composed of "experts, operators, visionaries, and technologists from a variety of different backgrounds and skill sets" — values cross-sector collaboration including academia and nonprofits [neural-earth.io](https://www.neural-earth.io/careers)
- **Remote policy**: Fully remote company — all listed positions are "Remote" with a mix of "Contract to full time" and direct "Full time" options [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth)
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and geospatial technology at the intersection of climate risk and financial systems; early-stage company with oversubscribed seed funding providing growth trajectory; roles span AI/ML, platform engineering, geospatial data science, product design, and sales
- **Open positions as of search date**: AI/ML Engineer, Account Executive, Geospatial Data Scientist, Mechanical Engineer, Staff Platform Engineer, Sales Engineer, Senior Product Designer, plus open applications [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth)

## Sources
1. [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/) — Company website, product descriptions, funding announcement
2. [neural-earth.io/careers](https://www.neural-earth.io/careers) — Careers page, team culture description
3. [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/) — Prometheus product page, customer value claims, industry focus
4. [neuralearth.ai/leadership](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership) — Leadership team details, co-founders
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth) — Open job listings, remote policy

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