Music Producer & Audio Post Specialist (AI Evaluation)

Mercor
AI and machine learning
Remote
United States only
Full time

$70 to $120/hIndicative range provided by Mercor

Posted on November 5, 2026 · Applications until December 8, 2026

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You will evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, and sound design, giving written feedback on sync, intelligibility, and loudness. Requires 5+ years of shipped commercial music or audio post work, with broadcast mixing experience.

Description in English, as published by Mercor.

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 Music Producer and Audio Post Specialist, a commercial composer and mixer, with deep, hands-on experience scoring, mixing and mastering spots for broadcast and digital, to bring real music and audio post 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 commercial music production and audio post-production.
  • Design challenging, real-world music and audio tasks, such as scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangement, voice-over cleanup, sound design and mixing for ads, and produce rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable session formats.
  • Evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, sound design and mixes and give clear, written feedback, catching problems with structure, sync to picture, intelligibility, mix balance and loudness.
  • Develop guidelines, rubrics and quality checks for music and audio, including technical loudness and sync checks.
  • Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

3. Core Qualifications

  • 5+ years of shipped commercial music or audio post work for agencies, brands, broadcasters or production companies, at a music house, audio post studio, production music library, network or in-house brand audio team. Crowd rating, data labeling and student work do not count.
  • Composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital spots, with multi-stem arrangement, alt mixes and cutdowns (:60, :30, :15, :06) delivered to picture.
  • Mix and master credits on spots delivered to broadcast loudness specs such as ATSC A/85 (-24 LKFS, -2 dBTP) and EBU R128 (-23 LUFS, -1 dBTP), with the ability to explain the specs from memory.
  • Professional fluency in Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Reaper, plus iZotope RX for voice-over and dialogue cleanup and a loudness meter such as iZotope Insight, Nugen VisLM or Waves WLM. Dolby Atmos or 5.1 delivery is a plus.
  • Fluency with editable source files and deliverables: DAW sessions, DME and instrument stems, cue sheets, ISRC and metadata, sync licence terms and library delivery requirements.
  • Hands-on sound design, Foley and voice-over session experience, including bed and voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form ads.
  • Working familiarity with generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs and Adobe Enhance Speech, the ability to generate your own comparison samples, 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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