Video Editing Professional

About this role

**About the work** Mercor is assembling a panel of professional video editors to build post-production tasks used to train and evaluate AI agents. Each task gives an AI agent what you'd hand a junior editor: source footage, a brief, and a deliverable spec, plus a hidden answer key or rubric so the finished video can be scored on the result, not on a text answer. You will: - Contribute original footage you shot and fully own (or source openly licensed footage) and author realistic editing briefs from it. - Build each task end to end in your own editing software: cut, introduce defects or distractors where the task calls for them, and produce the reference edit a correct result is judged against. - Write the grading criteria — concrete, checkable standards with the editorial reasoning behind them. - Blind-solve tasks built by other editors and write up a step-by-step solution. **Background we're looking for** - 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production, owning deliverables end to end. - 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. - Strong plus: a library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release. The more, the better. **The application** 1. Submit your resume and a link to your reel or portfolio. 2. Complete a short AI interview about your editing background. 3. Answer a few questions about your footage: what you have, whether you own it outright, and whether the people in it consent to its use. **Before you apply** - Not open to residents of California. - Expect about 12 hours/week.

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• rlhf
• sme
• annotation
• Arts & Design