Video Editor

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🏄 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 openly licensed footage • Author realistic video-editing briefs • Build post-production tasks end to end in editing software • Cut footage, introduce defects or distractors when required, and produce reference edits • Write concrete, checkable grading criteria with editorial reasoning • Blind-solve tasks created by other editors • Write step-by-step solutions for solved tasks • Answer questions about available footage, ownership, and consent for use • Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years editing professionally in film and TV, commercials, broadcast news, or creator and social production • Experience owning video 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 • Submit a resume and link to a reel or portfolio • Complete a short AI interview about editing background • Not open to residents of California • Must be an independent contractor • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates • Professional footage ownership and appearance releases are a strong plus, not an absolute requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule / completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Competitive pay • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Up to $250 referral payment for each successful referral (referral limits apply) • Reasonable accommodations upon request