Video Editing Professional

About the role

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.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Scope of Work

• 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.

What you’ll bring

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong plus: a library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.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.

Benefits

Not provided in the source listing.

Schedule and availability

Approximately 12 hours/week.

Contract & Payment Terms

• 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.
• Not open to residents of California.
• Expect about 12 hours/week.
• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

Where you can work

Not open to residents of California. The supplied posting does not specify all other eligible countries or states.

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