<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What We Do</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that. We built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. In five years, we've become the market leader: over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, trust Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations from collection to close.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>How We Do It</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves. Point solutions are easy to build and even easier to copy. The companies that win won't just sell tools — they'll capture value where the money actually moves. Ascend is built for exactly that moment. Our customers don't just adopt software, they unlock measurable efficiency with a proven 5-7x return on investment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our team is onsite in San Francisco. We bring deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and financial infrastructure to build what the industry has never had.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Why We Do It</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The insurance industry intermediates trillions of dollars — and almost none of that infrastructure was built for the modern era. Legacy systems aren't just inefficient; they're a ceiling on what the industry can become.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ascend's mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030 — powering the financial operations of the entire industry and transforming the way trillions of dollars move. We're not building another point solution, we're building the financial backbone of insurance.</span></p></div><p></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Your Role</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ascend is hiring a Solutions Engineer (Contract) to take full ownership of a critical AI-driven data extraction workflow. You’ll shape how automation powers the insurance industry—improving accuracy, scalability, and customer experience at every step.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You’ll dive deep into complex data problems, fine-tune prompts, and refine systems that power the automation layer behind Ascend’s financial infrastructure. This role is a mix of hands-on problem-solving, experimentation, and collaboration with Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to make our automation more reliable and intelligent.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a <strong>contract role</strong> based on-site at our San Francisco office, 40 hours per week for three months, starting in October.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h1> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Own and optimize prompt logic</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Identify and resolve data extraction issues using prompt engineering and analytical problem-solving.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design systems that enable scalable, high-accuracy iteration on prompt workflows.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Technical implementation & tooling</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with internal teams to improve testing, monitoring, and refinement processes.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvet