Senior Motion Designer & Creative Technologist (AI Evaluation)

$70–120/hr

rate as listed

Workload: 40 hrs/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: US
Field: Creative

Evaluate AI-generated motion graphics, design demanding training tasks and create editable reference work across After Effects and code-driven animation. This full-time W-2 role requires shipped professional motion design, a public reel and a public code sample that renders or animates video.

The work

You would help research teams improve generative AI systems for motion design, kinetic typography, animated overlays and code-driven video. Day to day, that means designing realistic evaluation tasks, producing reference deliverables in editable formats and reviewing generated work for timing, easing, hierarchy, tracking, safe areas and audiovisual sync.

Production and evaluation

The role combines senior creative judgment with hands-on technical execution. Expected tools and formats include After Effects expressions, 2.5D parallax, tracked composites, Cinema 4D or Blender, command-line FFmpeg and at least one code-driven animation workflow such as Remotion, HTML5 Canvas, SVG animation, Three.js or WebGL, GSAP, p5.js, TouchDesigner, Houdini or scripted rendering. Working JavaScript or TypeScript, or Python, is required for writing and debugging render or animation code. You may also build rubrics, scripted quality checks and comparison samples using professional generative video or image tools.

What the screen examines

Expect close questioning about shipped client or brand work, the decisions behind a portfolio piece and the architecture of a public code sample. The screen is likely to test whether you can identify plausible-looking but weak motion, explain defects at frame and system level, distinguish subjective taste from measurable failure and propose checks that work across aspect ratios and delivery formats.

Logistics

This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with placement in an AI lab's extended workforce. The stated commitment is at least 40 hours per week during weekdays and is described as full time. The listing does not specify whether the work is remote or how much of it is asynchronous.

Pay band: $70–120/hr

What they look for

5+ years of shipped professional motion design work for an agency, studio, post house, broadcast team or in-house brand team
Expert After Effects, including expressions, kinetic typography, 2.5D parallax and tracked composites, plus Cinema 4D or Blender
Shipped code-driven motion using at least one listed animation, graphics or scripted-rendering workflow
Working JavaScript or TypeScript, or Python, for writing and debugging animation and render code
Command-line FFmpeg and fluency with editable source files, repositories, codecs and multi-aspect-ratio delivery
Professional use of generative video and image tools, supported by a public reel and public animation code sample

Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: This tests whether your experience comes from accountable professional delivery rather than student work, marketplace templates or isolated production support.
A strong answer: Choose a verifiable project and identify the client or context, your exact responsibilities, the production constraints, the decisions you personally made and the formats that shipped. Separate your contribution from that of directors, animators, editors and developers.
Where people lose it: Candidates lose points by presenting a polished reel montage without identifying what they made, what actually shipped or how the final deliverable differed from early concepts.

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