
Music Producer & Audio Post Specialist (AI Evaluation)
Listing checked November 7, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Key details
- Pay
- $70–120/hr
- Location
- Remote · United StatesUnited States
- Job type
- full-time
- Openings
- 20
- Posted
- November 4, 2026
Overview
Mercor places this role inside a leading AI lab's GenAI team, where your ears and session chops shape how well generative models handle music and audio post. You bring real scoring, mixing and mastering credits on broadcast and digital spots, then turn that experience into training tasks, rubrics and written evaluations. Work centers on Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Reaper, with iZotope RX for dialogue cleanup and a loudness meter for spec checks. The engagement runs 40 hours per week on weekdays, and Cincinnatus LLC holds you as a W-2 employee while you sit inside the client's extended workforce.
What You'll Do7
- Coach research teams through the gaps in their music and audio knowledge so model output improves.
- Build realistic test tasks such as scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangement, voice-over cleanup, ad sound design and mixing, then ship rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable sessions.
- Review model-generated music, voice-over, sound design and mixes, and write clear feedback on structure, picture sync, intelligibility, balance and loudness.
- Write grading rubrics and quality checks that cover technical loudness targets and sync accuracy for music and audio.
- Compare generated results against your own samples and flag weak output that only looks convincing on the surface.
- Sync with other subject matter experts so training data stays consistent and accurate across tasks.
- Walk reviewers through your portfolio and explain the creative and technical calls behind each decision.
Requirements10
- 5+ years of shipped commercial music or audio post work for agencies, brands, broadcasters or production companies, gained at a music house, audio post studio, production music library, network or in-house brand audio team. Student work, crowd rating and data labeling do not count.
- Composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital spots, including multi-stem arrangements, alt mixes and cutdowns at :60, :30, :15 and :06 timed 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 recite those specs from memory.
- Hands-on command of Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Reaper, plus iZotope RX for voice-over and dialogue cleanup, plus a loudness meter such as iZotope Insight, Nugen VisLM or Waves WLM.
- Comfort with editable sources and deliverables: DAW sessions, DME and instrument stems, cue sheets, ISRC and metadata, sync licence terms and library delivery specs.
- Sound design, Foley and voice-over session experience, covering bed and voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form ads.
- Practical use of generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs and Adobe Enhance Speech, with the judgment to separate a strong result from a plausible weak one.
- A public portfolio or reel of shipped work that you can present and discuss.
- Reliable weekday availability of at least 40 hours per week.
- Strong written communication and the ability to explain creative decisions in plain terms.
Preferred Qualifications1
- Dolby Atmos or 5.1 delivery experience
Who Should Apply
Commercial composers and mixers with five or more years of shipped ad work who know broadcast loudness specs cold and keep a reel they can defend. Sound designers and audio post specialists who already test tools like Suno, Udio and ElevenLabs and want that judgment to shape model training.
Salary Insight
The posted range is $70 to $120 per hour, paid through W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC at 40 hours per week. That band sits well above typical freelance ad-scoring day rates, and the top of it usually goes to people with deep broadcast mix credits plus Dolby Atmos or surround delivery on their reel.
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