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.

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:
• 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.

About Cincinnatus LLC: Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.