About this role
Help improve music and audio technology by turning careful listening into precise, structured training data. In this remote contract role, you will evaluate short real-world recordings and document the musical and environmental details that are actually audible.
Key Responsibilities- Listen to 30-90 second field recordings using headphones in a quiet workspace.
- Create structured annotations identifying instruments, tempo, musical key, scene details, and timestamps for background events such as traffic, sirens, and applause.
- Compare recordings of the same song captured in different locations, noting what remains consistent and what changes.
- In later project phases, assess AI-generated clip descriptions, identify accurate, incorrect, or unsupported details, and provide brief evidence-based explanations.
- Attend a paid onboarding and calibration session, plus a short weekly sync.
- At least 3 years of hands-on music or audio experience.
- Strong analytical listening skills, including the ability to distinguish individual instruments in busy, real-world audio mixes.
- Ability to identify tempo within a few BPM and musical key. Relative pitch with a reference is acceptable.
- Comfort with detailed, repetitive web-based annotation tasks involving dropdowns, timestamps, and short structured notes.
- Clear written English for concise, evidence-based observations, such as noting when an instrument enters.
- Quality headphones, a quiet workspace, and reliable internet access.
- Working or gigging musicians, session players, producers, or mixing engineers.
- Music educators, ear-training instructors, band or choir directors, and conservatory students or graduates.
- Location sound recordists, sound designers, foley artists, and podcast or documentary audio editors.
- Remote independent contractor engagement.
- Availability of 20-25 hours per week during the engagement window is required.
$30-$45 per hour.