Editorial, Deck & Document Designer (AI Evaluation)
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 generative AI models. 1. Overview Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from…
- Field
- Design & media
- Where
- United States
- Commitment
- full time
- Hours
- up to 40/week
- Openings
- 20
- Employment
- W-2 employee of Cincinnatus LLC, per the listing
- Posted
- 5 days ago
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How this pay compares
The title points to rating and reviewing ai output: judging a model's answers or code against guidelines, such as which of two is better or whether one is correct and safe. What each kind of AI training work pays
At $95/hr (the midpoint of $70 to $120), this role pays more than 87% of the 58 open design & media roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $70.
Among platforms with 10 or more priced design & media roles, Mercor has the highest median ($75/hr across 15 roles) and OpenTrain AI the lowest ($70/hr across 35).
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one 5 days ago.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Per week, before tax
$3,800
Per month, if the work is steady
$16,467
- Tax
- The listing describes a W-2 employee role, so the employer withholds US tax from each paycheck.
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Open design & media roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercorthis role | 15 | $75/hr | Commercial Video Editor & Post-Production Lead (AI Evaluation)$70-120/hr |
| OpenTrain AI | 35 | $70/hr | 2D Design Expert AI Evaluator$125/hr |
| micro1 | 3 | $70/hr3 priced | Senior Photographer$55-105/hr |
| Alignerr | 5 | $40/hr | Film Scene Description Specialist$40-120/hr |
| Handshake AI | 9 | up to $125/hr | 2D Design ExpertUp to $125/hr |
“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.
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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 generative 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 a talented Editorial, Deck & Document Designer with deep, hands-on presentation, publication and print production experience to bring real layout and typographic judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data. This is a full-time commitment of 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
- Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in presentation design, editorial layout, typography, information design and print production.
- Design challenging, real-world deck and document tasks, from executive summaries to brand books and brochures, and produce reference deliverables in editable source formats.
- Evaluate AI-generated presentations, documents and infographics and give clear, written feedback, catching problems with grids, type hierarchy, chart accuracy, bleed, page setup and print color.
- Develop guidelines, rubrics and quality checks for layout and typography, including technical checks on slide and PDF files.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
3. Core Qualifications
- 5+ years of shipped presentation, editorial or document design for agency, studio, consultancy or commercial clients, for example a consultancy visual graphics or design studio team (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture), a presentation agency (Duarte, Buffalo 7, SketchDeck, Prezlab), a brand or annual report studio (Pentagram, Addison, Radley Yeldar, Emperor, Lippincott), a publisher or magazine, or an in-house corporate communications or investor relations design team. Crowd rating, data labeling and student work do not count.
- Expert command of PowerPoint and browser-based slide tools, including master slides, custom templates and chart tooling such as think-cell, with Keynote a plus.
- Expert command of Adobe InDesign for multi-page documents: master pages, paragraph and character styles, grids and baseline alignment, long-document features, and packaging files for print. Affinity Publisher is acceptable where the work was shipped.
- Working fluency in Figma and Illustrator for brand systems, diagrams, icons and vector charts.
- Print prepress ownership: bleed, trim, safe area, folds (tri-fold, gatefold), dielines, imposition, Pantone and CMYK, press proofs, and PDF/X exports a printer accepts first time.
- A track record of executive chartbooks, board or investor decks, infographics and data visualisation where the chart choice and the typography carry the argument.
- Fluency delivering and working from editable source files (.pptx, .key, browser-based slide tools, .indd and .idml, .ai, .fig, .afpub, print-ready PDF).
- Hands-on working use of generative AI tools in professional work, for example Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Adobe Firefly, Canva Magic Design or Midjourney for imagery, and the judgment to tell a strong result from a plausible-looking weak one.
- A public portfolio or reel of shipped work; you will be asked to walk through it.
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain creative decisions clearly.
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.
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Full Mercor profile: watch-outs and the public record →Pay history
Mercor has listed this role at $70-120/hr since Nov 6, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's design & media roles, the median listed pay was $70/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (13 roles) and is $75/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (15 roles).
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