[Hiring] Image Quality Specialist @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a specialised part-time opportunity for experienced visual professionals with deep expertise in film, VFX, animation, cinematography, colour, lighting, rendering, or high-end photography and an exceptional eye for pixel-level image quality. This role supports advanced AI research focused on visual enhancement and image-generation quality. Selected professionals will evaluate high-resolution video and still imagery, identify subtle visual artifacts, develop rigorous evaluation standards, and translate complex visual observations into precise written feedback and structured quality criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Image & Video Quality Evaluation
  • Evaluate high-resolution still images and video sequences at pixel level
  • Identify compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, and other visual defects
  • Assess grain structure, texture fidelity, edge quality, and image consistency
  • Detect over-sharpening, under-sharpening, and inappropriate enhancement
  • Determine whether outputs meet professional film, VFX, animation, or photography quality standards
• VFX, Rendering & Visual Fidelity
  • Evaluate rendering quality, lighting behaviour, textures, materials, and compositing details
  • Identify subtle inconsistencies that may be overlooked in standard visual review
  • Assess continuity and visual consistency across frames and sequences
  • Apply professional judgement to high-end digital imagery and cinematic content
  • Review outputs against standards used in production-quality visual workflows
• Colour, Lighting & Image Perception
  • Assess colour consistency, grading quality, tonal relationships, and visual balance
  • Evaluate lighting behaviour, illumination, contrast, depth, and image structure
  • Identify colour artifacts and inconsistencies across sequences
  • Apply knowledge of light physics and visual perception to quality assessments
  • Evaluate depth of field, sharpness, and other image characteristics affecting perceived realism
• Evaluation Frameworks & Quality Standards
  • Design and refine visual-quality evaluation templates and rating guidelines
  • Define clear standards for identifying and categorising visual defects
  • Develop criteria that reviewers can apply consistently across varied content
  • Address edge cases and ambiguous visual-quality scenarios
  • Help maintain a consistent professional quality bar across reviewers and projects
• Visual Testing & Sample Development
  • Generate visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison
  • Create examples designed to expose specific image-quality strengths or weaknesses
  • Evaluate enhanced, restored, generated, or upscaled content against reference material
  • Support structured experimentation across different visual conditions
  • Apply AI-assisted tools where appropriate to develop evaluation material
• AI Evaluation & Written Feedback
  • Translate subtle visual observations into clear, precise descriptive language
  • Produce structured feedback suitable for evaluation data and quality-review templates
  • Review AI-generated visual outputs against defined technical and aesthetic standards
  • Identify recurring artifact patterns and quality failures
  • Collaborate with other visual specialists and project leads to maintain evaluation consistency

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in film, VFX, animation, professional photography, digital imaging, or another high-end visual production environment
• Professional experience as a VFX Supervisor, Rendering Supervisor, Lighting Artist or Supervisor, Colorist, Cinematographer, Effects Artist, Surfacing Artist, Photographer, Director, Digital Projectionist, or comparable visual specialist
• Exceptional ability to identify pixel-level flaws, artifacts, and visual inconsistencies
• Strong understanding of image quality, visual perception, lighting, colour, texture, and digital-image behaviour
• Experience assessing high-resolution imagery and production-quality visual outputs
• Ability to explain complex visual defects and quality differences precisely in written English
• Familiarity with AI-assisted visual tools and workflows
• Ability to generate visual samples for testing and comparison
• Training through a respected film, VFX, animation, photography, or digital-media programme is highly valued
• Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or display
• Must be based in the United States
• Able to work approximately 20 hours per week with availability overlapping PST through EST working hours

Engagement Details

• Part-time engagement
• Fully remote
• Approximately 20 hours per week
• Working hours must overlap the PST–EST window
• Compensation: $50–$80/hour
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, studio, or other third party

Company Description

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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