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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.
What You'll Do
- 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.
You're a Good Fit If You
- 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- Strong plus: a library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.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
- 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.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement. Apply via the link below - Mercor handles onboarding and pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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