Video Editor
Posted 16hrs ago
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Job Description
Video editor creating realistic post-production tasks and reference edits for Mercor. Writing grading rubrics and solutions to train and evaluate AI agents.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute original footage personally shot and fully owned, or openly licensed footage
- Author realistic video-editing briefs
- Build post-production tasks end to end in editing software
- Cut footage, introduce defects or distractors when required, and produce reference edits
- Write concrete, checkable grading criteria with editorial reasoning
- Blind-solve tasks created by other editors
- Write step-by-step solutions for solved tasks
- Answer questions about available footage, ownership, and consent for use
- Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
Requirements:
- 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production
- Experience owning video 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
- Submit a resume and link to a reel or portfolio
- Complete a short AI interview about editing background
- Not open to residents of California
- Must be an independent contractor
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
- Professional footage ownership and appearance releases are a strong plus, not an absolute requirement
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
- Up to $250 referral payment for each successful referral (referral limits apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request

















