Apply for the Visual Quality Expert role at a leading AI lab. Remote, part-time, W-2 contract paying $60–$90/hour. Seeking VFX supervisors, colorists, cinematographers, and photographers for pixel-level AI image evaluation.

Visual Quality Expert (Film, VFX & Animation) – Remote AI GenAI Job

Join a leading AI lab’s cutting-edge GenAI team. Remote, part-time, W-2 contract. Seeking VFX supervisors, colorists, cinematographers, and photographers for pixel-level AI image evaluation.

Job Overview

We are seeking senior visual quality experts from film, VFX, animation, and professional photography to join a leading AI lab’s GenAI team. This is a part-time W-2 contract role with remote work across the United States, offering $60–$90 per hour.

In this role, you will judge, frame by frame, whether enhanced or upscaled images and video hold up to professional standards. You will catch compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, grain-structure inconsistency, and over- or under-sharpening—flaws that go unnoticed by average viewers but matter deeply to filmmakers and VFX professionals.

This is a rare opportunity for professionals with a strong foundation in visual perception, light physics, and pixel-level scrutiny to help build foundational AI models from the ground up.

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.

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.

  • Director — particularly those with deep experience directing crowd and background action.

  • Digital Projectionist — a rigorously trained eye for final-output quality, screen-level fidelity, and visual anomalies.

• Training from a university or program with a highly respected film, visual effects, or digital media program.

• Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or display to perform precise, pixel-level evaluation.

• Familiarity with AI tools and workflows, including the ability to generate your own visual samples for testing and comparison.

• Ability to engage reliably for 20 hours per week, with working hours overlapping the PST to EST window.

• Fluent in English, with the exceptional ability to translate complex visual details into clear, precise descriptive language.

Job Details

How to Apply

If you have the pixel-level eye we’re looking for, apply now to join a leading AI lab’s GenAI team and shape the future of AI image quality.

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