Visual Quality Expert (Film, VFX & Animation)

About this role

**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 ev