Film Editor - Fully Remote | Up to $50/hr
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Job description
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- A library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.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.
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