About the job
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
Role Responsibilities
- 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 .
Qualifications
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- A library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Submit your resume and a link to your reel or portfolio.
- Complete a short AI interview about your editing background.
- 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.
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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.