Film Editor - Fully Remote

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.

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  • A library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.