Video Editing Professional
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Professional video editor creating realistic post-production tasks and grading rubrics for Mercor. Building reference edits and solutions to train and evaluate frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute original footage personally shot and fully owned, or openly licensed footage
- Author realistic editing briefs from the footage
- Build post-production tasks end to end in editing software
- Cut footage and introduce defects or distractors when required
- Produce reference edits used to judge correct results
- Write concrete, checkable grading criteria with editorial reasoning
- Blind-solve tasks created by other editors
- Write step-by-step solutions
- Support training and evaluation of AI agents and frontier AI systems
Requirements:
- 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production
- Own deliverables end to end
- Fluent in at least one professional editor: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Media Composer
- Basic color and audio cleanup skills
- Comfortable with delivery specifications including resolution, frame rate, codecs, audio channel layouts, and frame-accurate cuts
- Strong plus: library of unpublished original footage personally shot and fully owned
- Strong plus: people on camera who will sign an appearance release
- Submit a resume and link to a reel or portfolio
- Complete a short AI interview about editing background
- Provide information about footage ownership and consent for its use
- Must not be a resident of California
- Must be able to work approximately 12 hours per week
- Must be eligible to work without H-1B or STEM OPT support
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule / completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral bonus of up to $250 per successful referral
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