Music Producer & Audio Specialist
Position: Music Producer & Audio Specialist
Type: Full-Time, W-2 Employment
Compensation: $70–$120 per hour
Location: Remote (United States)
Time Commitment: 40 hours per week, weekdays
About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Music Producer and Audio Post Specialist with a strong background in commercial composition, mixing, and mastering for broadcast and digital advertising. In this role, you will collaborate with a leading AI research team to help advance next-generation generative AI systems. You will apply your professional expertise in music production and audio post-production to design realistic creative tasks, evaluate AI-generated audio, and establish quality standards for music, sound design, and mixing.
This is an opportunity to bring real-world commercial audio production judgment into AI development. Candidates should have substantial professional experience delivering music and audio post-production projects for agencies, brands, broadcasters, or production companies.
The position is a W-2 employment opportunity with Cincinnatus LLC, which serves as the employer of record. Selected professionals may be placed within a leading AI lab’s extended workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Guide research teams in identifying knowledge gaps and improving AI model performance in commercial music production and audio post-production.
- Design challenging, real-world music and audio production tasks, including scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangements, voice-over cleanup, sound design, and advertising mixes.
- Produce rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable digital audio workstation (DAW) session formats.
- Evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, sound design, and audio mixes for professional quality and technical accuracy.
- Provide clear, structured written feedback on musical structure, synchronization with picture, dialogue intelligibility, mix balance, and loudness compliance.
- Develop guidelines, evaluation rubrics, and quality-control checks for music and audio deliverables.
- Assess technical requirements such as broadcast loudness standards, synchronization, and audio delivery specifications.
- Collaborate with other subject-matter experts to maintain consistency, accuracy, and quality across AI training and evaluation data.
- Apply professional judgment to distinguish high-quality audio outputs from results that may appear convincing but contain technical or creative shortcomings.
Required Qualifications
- At least 5 years of professional experience delivering commercial music composition, production, mixing, or audio post-production work for agencies, brands, broadcasters, or production companies.
- Professional experience at a music production house, audio post-production studio, production music library, broadcast network, or in-house brand audio team.
- Demonstrated composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital advertising spots.
- Experience creating multi-stem arrangements, alternative mixes, and cutdowns for different advertising durations, including :60, :30, :15, and :06 formats.
- Professional mixing and mastering experience for broadcast loudness specifications, including:
- Ability to explain and apply relevant broadcast loudness standards.
- Professional proficiency in Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Reaper.
- Experience using iZotope RX for voice-over and dialogue cleanup, along with professional loudness measurement tools such as iZotope Insight, Nugen VisLM, or Waves WLM.
- Familiarity with editable source files and professional delivery requirements, including DAW sessions, DME and instrument stems, cue sheets, ISRC information, metadata, synchronization licensing terms, and music library delivery requirements.
- Hands-on experience with sound design, Foley, and voice-over sessions, including voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form advertising.
- Working familiarity with generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs, and Adobe Enhance Speech.
- Ability to generate comparison samples using generative audio tools and evaluate their creative and technical quality.
- A public portfolio or professional reel demonstrating completed commercial work, with the ability to discuss and explain individual projects.
- Availability to commit reliably to at least 40 hours per week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to clearly explain creative and technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering Dolby Atmos or 5.1 surround-sound projects.
- Advanced expertise in commercial music composition, multi-stem production, sound design, and broadcast audio workflows.
- Experience developing audio quality standards, evaluation guidelines, or structured review processes.
- Familiarity with emerging generative audio technologies and their practical applications in professional production environments.
- Experience collaborating with research teams, technical specialists, or AI evaluation professionals.
Compensation & Engagement
- Compensation: $70–$120 per hour
- Engagement Type: Full-time, W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC
- Work Arrangement: Remote (United States)
- Time Commitment: 40 hours per week