Visual Quality Expert - VFX Specialist

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking senior image quality experts from film, VFX, animation, and professional photography — VFX and rendering supervisors, colorists, cinematographers, lighting artists, and high-end photographers — with a strong foundation in visual perception, light physics, and pixel-level scrutiny. You will judge, frame by frame, whether an enhanced or upscaled image actually holds up, catching the compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, grain-structure inconsistency, and over- or under-sharpening that typically go unnoticed by the average viewer.

This is a part-time W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.

• Evaluate high-resolution video and stills at pixel level, identifying compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, grain-structure inconsistency, and over- or under-sharpening.
• Apply an uncompromising focus on the intricate details that typically go unnoticed, and flag where output diverges from professional image-quality standards.
• Design and refine evaluation templates and rating guidelines so reviewers apply the same visual-quality bar consistently, including under edge cases.
• Translate complex visual details into clear, precise descriptive language that can be captured in data captions and evaluation templates.
• Generate your own visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts and program leads to maintain visual consistency across sequences and across reviewers.

• 5+ years of professional experience in high-end visual evaluation across film, VFX, animation, or professional photography.
• Direct professional experience in at least one of the following disciplines:
  • Visual Effects (VFX) Supervisor — the authority on final image quality, with an elite eye for pixel-level flaws, grain-structure inconsistencies, and visual artifacts.
  • Rendering Supervisor — accustomed to running dailies and taking ultimate responsibility for visual quality down to the absolute pixel.
  • Lighting Supervisor, Lead, or Artist — a specialist in illumination and the foundational building blocks of digital video and cinematic motion.
  • Colorist — deep expertise in color grading, artifact detection, and maintaining visual consistency across sequences.
  • Director of Photography (DP) or Cinematographer — skilled at framing, capturing visual performance, and critically evaluating over- and under-sharpness in high-resolution images.
  • Effects or Surfacing Artist — strong command of textures, materials, and the complex simulation of visual elements.
  • High-End Photographer — deep command of lighting dynamics, depth of field, and color artifacts in high-resolution captures.
  • Director — particularly those with deep experience directing crowd and background action.
  • Digital Projectionist — a rigorously trained eye for final-output quality, screen-level fidelity, and visual anomalies.
• Training from a university or program with a highly respected film, visual effects, or digital media program.
• Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or display to perform precise, pixel-level evaluation.
• Familiarity with AI tools and workflows, including the ability to generate your own visual samples for testing and comparison.
• Ability to engage reliably for 20 hours per week, with working hours overlapping the PST to EST window.
• Fluent in English, with the exceptional ability to translate…