Video Editor

🔥 14 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $50 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎬 Video Editor

👻 Ghost score 8%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Contribute original footage personally shot and fully owned, or source openly licensed footage • Author realistic editing briefs from the footage • Build post-production tasks end to end in personal editing software • Cut footage and introduce defects or distractors when required • Produce reference edits against which correct results are judged • Write concrete, checkable grading criteria and explain the editorial reasoning • Blind-solve tasks created by other editors • Write step-by-step solutions • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production • Own deliverables end to end • Fluent in at least one professional editor: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Media Composer • Basic color and audio cleanup skills • Comfortable with delivery specifications including resolution, frame rate, codecs, audio channel layouts, and frame-accurate cuts • Strong plus: library of unpublished original footage personally shot and fully owned • People appearing in footage must be willing to sign an appearance release • Submit a resume and a link to a reel or portfolio • Complete a short AI interview about editing background • Answer questions about available footage, ownership, and consent for use • Not open to residents of California • Must be able to work approximately 12 hours per week • Must be engaged as an independent contractor • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Up to $250 referral payment for each successful referral, subject to referral limits • Reasonable accommodations available upon request