Video Editor - Post-Production Expert

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark
, General Catalyst
, Peter Thiel
, Adam D'Angelo
, Larry Summers
, and Jack Dorsey
.

Position: Video Editing Professional
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $50/hour
Location:
Remote
Commitment:
12 hours/week

• Contribute original footage you shot and fully own or source openly licensed footage. Author realistic editing briefs from it.
• Build each task end to end in your own editing software. Cut, introduce defects or distractors, and produce the reference edit a correct result is judged against.
• Write grading criteria with concrete, checkable standards and the editorial reasoning behind them.
• Blind-solve tasks built by other editors and write up a step-by-step solution.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance
  .

• 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production.
• Fluent in at least one professional editor (
  Premiere Pro
  , DaVinci Resolve
  , Final Cut Pro
  , Avid Media Composer
  ), including basic color and audio cleanup.
• Comfortable with delivery specs: resolution, frame rate, codecs, audio channel layouts, and frame-accurate cuts.

• A library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.