Video Editing Professional

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of professional video editors in the United States to build post-production tasks for AI training and evaluation. Editors will own original footage, or source openly licensed material, and create editing briefs for realistic tasks.

Applicants should have 5+ years of professional editing experience across film, TV, commercials, or creator content, and be fluent in at least one major editor (Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid).

Qualifications

• 5+ years editing professionally in film, TV, commercials or creator content.
• Ability to author realistic editing briefs from source footage.
• Comfort with delivery specs: resolution, frame rate, codecs, audio layouts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute original footage you shot or source openly licensed footage and author realistic editing briefs.
• Build each task end to end in your editing software, including introducing defects or distractors as required, and produce the reference edit.
• Write the grading criteria — concrete, checkable standards with editorial reasoning.
• Blind-solve tasks built by other editors and document a step-by-step solution.

Skills

Video editing

Editorial storytelling

Color correction

Audio cleanup

Tools

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

Avid Media Composer

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. The application


• Not open to residents of California.


• Expect about 12 hours/week.