Senior Video Editor - Remote QA Specialist

About the role

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, is hiring a Senior Video Editor as an hourly, remote contractor. You will act as a Senior Video Editing Quality Assurance Specialist (SME) and review and evaluate AI-generated and human-edited video content, checking for professional post-production quality, technical accuracy, visual consistency and adherence to project guidelines. Your work helps improve AI models by making their video understanding, editing and generation more accurate and aligned with professional standards.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate editing quality: pacing, continuity, transitions, storytelling, visual consistency, audio quality and production standards.
• Perform technical QA: frame-rate inconsistencies, dropped frames, codec issues, color mismatches, sync problems, compression artifacts and export defects.
• Compare AI-generated video outputs and identify visual artifacts, unnatural motion and continuity problems.
• Create expert editing scenarios, reference examples, quality assessments and structured feedback.
• Check adherence to creative briefs, style guides, technical specs and project rubrics.
• Document errors clearly, explain their impact and recommend corrections; help set consistent evaluation standards across editors and reviewers.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional video editing experience in film, TV, broadcast, advertising, commercial or digital media.
• C1-C2 English to read guidelines and give detailed written feedback.
• Previous lead editor, senior editor, post-production supervisor, QC coordinator or similar role.
• Deep understanding of editing fundamentals and video technical standards (frame rates, codecs, color spaces, delivery specs).
• Experience with color correction, color grading, audio editing, sync, sound mixing, subtitles, captions and motion graphics.
• Ability to spot subtle defects such as jump cuts, continuity errors, audio drift and compression artifacts.
• Reliable, self-directed and able to work remotely across time zones; prior AI video evaluation or video annotation experience is a strong plus.

Required skills

• Advanced NLE: Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve strongly preferred; Avid Media Composer or Final Cut Pro also valued.
• Shareable professional video demo reel or portfolio showing commercial, broadcast, film, TV or digital video work.