Visual Quality Expert (Film, VFX & Animation)

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.

Pay

Firm hourly pay: $60-$90 per hour

Location

Remote, United States (PST to EST hours)

Eligibility

Remote; check the U.S. location wording

Qualification difficulty

Selective

What this role involves

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models. 1. Overview Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up.

We're seeking senior image quality experts from film, VFX, animation, and professional photography — VFX and rendering supervisors, colorists, cinematographers, lighting artists, and high-end photographers — with a strong foundation in visual perception, light physics, and pixel-level scrutiny. You will judge, frame by frame, whether an enhanced or upscaled image actually holds up, catching the compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, grain-structure inconsistency, and over- or under-sharpening that typically go unnoticed by the average viewer.

This is a part-time W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce. 2.

Key Responsibilities

Evaluate high-resolution video and stills at pixel level, identifying compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, grain-structure inconsistency, and over- or under-sharpening. Apply an uncompromising focus on the intricate details that typically go unnoticed, and flag where output diverges from professional image-quality standards. Design and refine evaluation templates and rating guidelines so reviewers apply the same visual-quality bar consistently, including under edge cases.

Translate complex visual details into clear, precise descriptive language that can be captured in data captions and evaluation templates. Generate your own visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison. Collaborate with other subject matter experts and program leads to maintain visual consistency across sequences and across reviewers. 3. Core Qualifications 5+ years of professional experience in high-end visual evaluation across film, VFX, animation, or professional photography.

Direct professional experience in at least one of the following disciplines: Visual Effects (VFX) Supervisor — the authority on final image quality, with an elite eye for pixel-level flaws, grain-structure inconsistencies, and visual artifacts. Rendering Supervisor — accustomed to running dailies and taking ultimate responsibility for visual quality down to the absolute pixel. Lighting Supervisor, Lead, or Artist — a specialist in illumination and the foundational building blocks of digital video and cinematic motion.

Colorist — deep expertise in color grading, artifact detection, and maintaining visual consistency across sequences. Director of Photography (DP) or Cinematographer — skilled at framing, capturing visual performance, and critically evaluating over- and under-sharpness in high-resolution images. Effects or Surfacing Artist — strong command of textures, materials, and the complex simulation of visual elements. High-End Photographer — deep command of lighting dynamics, depth of field, and color artifacts in high-resolution captures.