Film Editor - Fully Remote

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of professional video editors to create post-production tasks used to train and evaluate AI agents. You will contribute original footage, source or shoot footage you own, and author realistic briefs for tasks.

You will build each task end-to-end in your editing software, introducing required defects and producing a reference edit for scoring. You will also write the grading criteria—clear, checkable standards—and blind-solve tasks created by others, documenting a

Qualifications

• 5+ years editing professionally in film, TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator content.

Responsibilities

• Contribute original footage you shot or sourced, fully own it.
• Build each task end-to-end in editing software, including adding defects or distractors as required, and produce the reference edit for scoring.
• Write concrete, checkable grading criteria explaining editorial reasoning.
• Blind-solve tasks from other editors and document a step-by-step solution.

Skills

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

Avid Media Composer

Color correction

Audio cleanup

Tools

Editing software suite

Job description

About the work

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.

You will:

• 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.

Background we're looking for

• 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.

Before you apply

• Not open to residents of California.


• Expect about 12 hours/week.