Video Editor

Mercor  ยท  via Get Backend Jobs
๐Ÿ’ฐ $50/hr ๐ŸŒŽ Remote ๐Ÿ“ Remote, California โฐ Contractor

Job Description:

  • Contribute original footage you shot and fully own, or source openly licensed footage
  • Author realistic editing briefs
  • Build post-production 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
  • Create post-production tasks used to train and evaluate AI agents

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
  • Resume and link to reel or portfolio
  • Complete a short AI interview about editing background
  • Not open to residents of California
  • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
  • Independent contractor status
  • Professional footage must be owned outright or openly licensed
  • People appearing in owned footage must consent to its use and sign an appearance release where applicable

Benefits:

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive pay
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
  • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $250 for successful referrals (subject to referral limits)