Music & Sound Annotation Expert

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This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in Canada.

Pay: $30$45/hr

Role Title: Music & Sound Annotation Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

We are engaging Music & Sound Annotation Experts to contribute to a customers project at the forefront of music and audio technology.

Your ears are the ground truth. Youll listen to short field recordings and document exactly whats audible instruments tempo key background sounds crowd reactions through a structured web platform built for this project. Later phases involve grading AI model answers against what you actually heard.

What youll do

1. Listen to 3090 second field recordings (headphones your own quiet workspace) and complete structured annotations: which instruments are present tempo and key timestamps of background events (traffic sirens applause) scene details
2. Compare paired recordings of the same song captured at different locations and judge what stayed the same and what changed
3. In later phases: review AI model descriptions of clips and mark whats correct wrong or invented with a brief written explanation
4. Attend a paid onboarding/calibration session and a short weekly sync

Who were looking for (any of these backgrounds)

1. Working or gigging musicians session players producers or mixing engineers
2. Music educators ear-training instructors band/choir directors conservatory students or graduates
3. Location sound recordists sound designers foley artists or podcast/documentary audio editors

Requirements

1. 3 years of hands-on music or audio experience
2. Strong analytical listening: you can pick individual instruments out of a busy noisy real-world mix not just studio recordings
3. Can identify tempo (within a few BPM) and musical key (relative pitch with a reference is fine)
4. Comfortable with detail-oriented repetitive annotation work in a web platform dropdowns timestamps short structured notes
5. Clear written English for brief evidence-based notes (e.g. accordion enters around 0:12)
6. Quality headphones quiet workspace reliable internet
7. Available 2025 hrs/week for the engagement window

How to apply

Apply here with your profile. We will then email you a link to complete your application on the hiring platform your application is only considered once that final step is done.