🌎 Music & Sound Annotation Expert, Remote- Contract

Xperteez Technology • ,

1d • $30 - $45 • Remote

About The Position

This remote contract role involves listening to short field recordings and documenting what is audible using a structured web platform. Annotations cover instruments, tempo, key, background sounds, crowd reactions, timestamps of events, and scene details. Later phases include evaluating AI model descriptions of audio clips and explaining briefly what is correct, incorrect, or invented. The engagement includes a paid onboarding and calibration session and a short weekly sync. The role requires 20–25 hours per week during the engagement window.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on music or audio experience.
• Strong analytical listening skills, including the ability to identify individual instruments in busy, noisy, real-world mixes.
• Ability to identify tempo within a few beats per minute and musical key; relative pitch with a reference is acceptable.
• Comfort with detailed, repetitive annotation work in a web platform, including dropdowns, timestamps, and short structured notes.
• Clear written English for brief, evidence-based notes.
• Quality headphones, a quiet workspace, and reliable internet.
• Availability for 20–25 hours per week during the engagement window.

Nice To Haves

• Background as a working or gigging musician, session player, producer, or mixing engineer.
• Background as a music educator, ear-training instructor, band or choir director, conservatory student, or conservatory graduate.
• Background as a location sound recordist, sound designer, foley artist, or podcast or documentary audio editor.

Responsibilities

• Listen to 30–90 second field recordings using headphones and complete structured annotations of instruments, tempo, key, background events, and scene details.
• Record timestamps for background events such as traffic, sirens, and applause.
• Compare recordings of the same song captured at different locations and identify what stayed the same and what changed.
• Review AI model descriptions of audio clips, mark statements as correct, wrong, or invented, and provide brief written explanations.
• Attend a paid onboarding and calibration session and a short weekly sync.

What This Job Offers

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