Commercial Video Editor & Post-Production Lead (AI Evaluation)

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Cincinnatus LLC is seeking a Commercial Video Editor and Post-Production Lead to join a leading AI lab's GenAI team in the USA. Bring hands-on agency editing experience to help train AI models, with real editorial judgment across broadcast and online formats.

This full-time role requires mastery of Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and a strong eye for pacing, color, and delivery specs. Expect ~40 hours per week on a W-2 arrangement via Cincinnatus LLC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipped commercial or agency editing experience.
• Portfolio with brand campaigns and editorial credits.
• Proficiency with Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams to close knowledge gaps and improve model performance through editing tasks.
• Design real-world edits from agency workflows, including hero cuts and localized versions.
• Evaluate AI-generated edits and provide clear feedback on pacing, color, audio sync, and delivery specs.
• Develop quality checks and guidelines for editing and finishing, including FFmpeg checks.
• Collaborate with SMEs to ensure training data consistency and accuracy.

Skills

Editing for broadcast

Agency editing experience

Editorial judgment

Content localization

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Avid Media Composer

After Effects

FFmpeg

Job description

Pay: $70 – $120/hour
Commitment: Full time, ~40 h/week
Open to: USA

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced generative AI models.

1. Overview

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking a talented Commercial Video Editor and Post-Production Lead with deep, hands-on commercial and agency editing experience to bring real editorial judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data. This is a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in commercial editing and post-production, including pacing, continuity, versioning, color and delivery.
• Design challenging, real-world editing tasks drawn from agency workflows, such as hero cuts with cutdowns, aspect-ratio reframes and localized versions, and produce reference edits with editable timelines in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
• Evaluate AI-generated video and edits and give clear, written feedback, catching problems with pacing and rhythm, continuity, audio sync, color accuracy, title safety and delivery specs.
• Develop guidelines, rubrics and quality checks for editing and finishing, including technical checks with tools such as FFmpeg.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

3. Core Qualifications

• 5+ years of shipped commercial or agency editing work at an editorial house, post house, agency in-house studio, production company or brand studio (for example Rock Paper Scissors, Work Editorial, Cut+Run, Final Cut, Company 3, The Mill, Hogarth, or an agency such as Wieden+Kennedy, Droga5 or BBDO), with named brand and campaign credits. Crowd rating, data labeling and student work do not count.
• Expert, daily use of Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with working knowledge of Avid Media Composer and After Effects for conforms, temp comps and handoffs.
• Fluency with editable source files and interchange formats you deliver and work from: .prproj, .drp, AAF, XML and EDL, ProRes and DNxHR masters, and project handoffs to colour, VFX and audio.
• Comfortable with FFmpeg or equivalent command-line tools for transcodes, probes and batch exports.
• Hands-on Rec.709 grading and finishing experience, including skin tones, LUT handling and delivery in Resolve.
• Deep experience cutting and versioning for broadcast, online video and social: :60 to :06 cutdowns, 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 reframes, localized and re-tagged versions, subtitles, safe areas, loudness and slate specs.
• Working familiarity with generative video and AI editing tools such as Runway, Kling, Luma, Sora, Topaz, Adobe Firefly and Generative Extend, and the judgment to tell a strong result from a plausible-looking weak one.
• A public portfolio or reel of shipped work; you will be asked to walk through it.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain creative decisions clearly.

About Cincinnatus LLC:

Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.