Video Editor
Posted 15hrs ago
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Job Description
Video editing professional creating realistic post-production tasks and reference edits for Mercor. Writing grading rubrics and solutions to train and evaluate frontier AI agents.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute original footage that is fully owned or openly licensed footage
- Author realistic post-production editing briefs
- Build tasks end to end in personal editing software
- Cut footage and introduce defects or distractors when required
- Produce reference edits against which correct results are judged
- Write concrete, checkable grading criteria with editorial reasoning
- Blind-solve tasks created by other editors
- Write step-by-step solutions
- Answer questions about available footage, ownership, and participant consent
- Help train and evaluate AI agents and enhance 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
- Submit a resume and link to a reel or portfolio
- Complete a short AI interview about editing background
- Must not be a resident of California
- Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
- Ability to work as an independent contractor
- Original footage must be fully owned by the applicant or openly licensed
- People appearing in owned footage must sign an appearance release if applicable
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule; can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Collaborate with leading researchers
- Referral opportunity to earn up to $250 per successful referral (referral limits apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request













