Performance & Directing Supervisor

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

A leading AI lab is building generative video models that aim to capture human performance and staging faithfully: acting realism, blocking, screen direction, eyelines, continuity and emotional nuance, carried into a new output. We're looking for experienced directors, assistant directors, animation supervisors and performance specialists to help define what a convincing, well staged performance looks like, and to judge where the models get it right or wrong. This is a full-time role of approximately 40 hours per week.

This is a 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

• Set the quality bar: Define clear standards for acting realism, blocking, screen direction (the 180-degree rule and eyelines) and continuity, critique current evaluations, and help build a taxonomy of the ways generated performances fail.
• Curate benchmarks: Identify, generate and curate strong examples of excellent and genuinely hard dramatic performances and staging, and test early model capabilities against them.
• Critique model outputs: Review generated scenes the way you would in dailies, and write precise, actionable notes on performance, staging and continuity.
• Shape the reviewer pool and captions: Help define how human reviewers are vetted and calibrated, and review captioning guidelines so performance and directing nuance is described accurately.
• Collaborate with other experts to keep evaluations consistent and accurate.

3. Core Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in film, television, theater or animation.
• Credits on 2+ professional films.
• A background in at least one of: Film or Television Director or 1st Assistant Director; Animation