Video Editor - Post-Production Expert - AI Trainer

Mercor; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 34,000 - 69,000; 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 provide original footage or licensed material, craft realistic editing briefs, and deliver reference edits that match defined specs.

We seek editors with 5+ years of professional experience in film, TV, or creator content, fluent with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or Avid, and comfortable delivering to standard resolutions, frame rates, codecs,

Qualifications

• 5+ years editing professionally in film/TV or related fields.
• Fluent with at least one pro editor and basic color/audio cleanup.
• Comfortable with delivery specs: resolution, frame rate, codecs, audio layouts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute original footage you shot or source openly licensed footage.
• Create end-to-end tasks in editing software and produce reference edits.
• Write grading criteria and editorial reasoning.
• Blind-solve tasks from other editors and document step-by-step solutions.

Skills

Editing

Attention to detail

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.

Before you apply

• Not open to residents of California.


• Expect about 12 hours/week.