Visual Quality Expert (Film, VFX & Animation)

Accountabilities

• • Evaluate high-resolution images and video frame by frame and at the pixel level, identifying compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, inconsistent grain, color issues, sharpening defects, and other visual imperfections.
  • Assess AI-generated, enhanced, and upscaled visual outputs against professional standards for image fidelity, consistency, realism, and production quality.
  • Apply specialized knowledge of lighting, color, rendering, image formation, photographic quality, and visual perception when evaluating visual outputs.
  • Identify subtle technical and perceptual defects that may be overlooked by less experienced reviewers.
  • Develop and refine visual-quality evaluation frameworks, rating criteria, review templates, and guidelines to promote consistency across reviewers and challenging edge cases.
  • Translate complex visual observations into precise, structured language suitable for evaluation datasets, annotations, captions, benchmarking, and quality-assessment workflows.
  • Generate or curate visual samples for targeted testing, benchmarking, side-by-side comparisons, and model evaluation.
  • Collaborate with other visual-quality specialists and program teams to establish and maintain consistent evaluation standards across images and video sequences.
  • Review and compare visual outputs systematically, explaining why specific results meet or fall short of professional quality expectations.
  • Contribute professional visual-production expertise to AI evaluation workflows involving image enhancement, upscaling, generative imagery, and video.
  • Help identify emerging quality patterns and challenging visual edge cases that can strengthen future evaluation processes and benchmarks.

  Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience in high-end visual production, evaluation, or image-quality assessment within film, VFX, animation, cinematography, rendering, or professional photography.
  • Demonstrated professional expertise in at least one relevant discipline, such as VFX supervision, rendering supervision, lighting, color grading, cinematography, effects, surfacing, professional photography, directing, or digital projection.
  • Strong understanding of visual perception, lighting, image fidelity, rendering, color, sharpness, image formation, and digital image quality.
  • Proven ability to conduct detailed visual comparisons and detect subtle inconsistencies, artifacts, and quality issues that may not be immediately apparent to an average viewer.
  • Experience reviewing final imagery, dailies, rendered outputs, photographic work, compositing, lighting, textures, materials, or other professional visual content.
  • Formal education or professional training in film, visual effects, animation, photography, digital media, or a related discipline is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows, including the ability to generate or curate visual samples for testing and comparison.
  • Experience with AI-generated imagery, image enhancement, upscaling, generative video, or visual evaluation workflows is a strong advantage.
  • Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or professional display capable of supporting detailed, pixel-level visual evaluation.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a highly developed visual judgment grounded in professional production standards.
  • Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to describe complex visual observations accurately, clearly, and consistently.
  • Strong analytical and observational skills, combined with the ability to apply structured evaluation criteria across varied visual content.
  • Ability to work reliably for approximately 20 hours per week with sufficient availability to overlap the PST-to-EST working window.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with other specialists and program teams in a remote environment.

  Benefits

  • Competitive compensation of $60–$90 per hour.
  • Part-time engagement of approximately 20 hours per week.
  • Fully remote work arrangement within the United States.
  • Opportunity to apply professional expertise in film, VFX, animation, cinematography, rendering, or photography to advanced AI development and evaluation.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge generative AI, image enhancement, upscaling, and visual benchmarking workflows.
  • Opportunity to contribute directly to the development and evaluation of advanced AI models through specialized visual expertise.
  • Flexible engagement structure within the agreed PST-to-EST working-hour overlap.
  • Collaborative environment alongside experienced visual-quality specialists and AI program teams.