Senior Film Editor for AI Training Tasks

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of professional video editors to build post-production tasks used to train and evaluate AI agents. You will contribute original footage you shot and fully own, author realistic editing briefs, and build each task end to end in your own editing software.

You will also write the grading criteria and blind-solve tasks built by other editors. Applicants should have 5+ years editing professionally across film, TV, commercials, or creator content, and be fluent in major

Qualifications

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• Strong plus: a library of unpublished original footage you shot and fully own, with people on camera who will sign an appearance release.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Video editing

Color correction

Audio cleanup

Delivery criteria understanding

Editorial decision making

Tools

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

Avid Media Composer

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of professional video editors to build post-production tasks used to train and evaluate AI agents. You will contribute original footage you shot and fully own, author realistic editing briefs, and build each task end to end in your own editing software.

You will also write the grading criteria and blind-solve tasks built by other editors. Applicants should have 5+ years editing professionally across film, TV, commercials, or creator content, and be fluent in major