[Hiring] Video Editing Professional @Mercor

Role Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The position is for a Video Editing Professional on a contract basis.

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• Preferred: A library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.

Requirements

• 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.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: Interview Process .
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected] .