Music Educator - AI Trainer
About The Job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Music Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $67–$75/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 20 hours/week Role Responsibilities
- Author, review, and annotate technical tasks to evaluate AI model performance on music and musicology problems.
- Produce original problem sets grounded in scores, harmonic analyses, and spectrograms.
- Write reference solutions and apply structured quality checks.
- Provide clear, structured feedback to improve AI training data quality and downstream performance.
- Work independently and asynchronously with a flexible schedule to meet deadlines.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- DMA or PhD in Music or Musicology, or MM with 3+ years teaching, performance, or research experience, or BM or BA in Music with 5+ years teaching, performance, or composition experience.
- Working fluency in at least two of: theory, history/musicology, performance practice, composition, ethnomusicology.
- Comfortable reading and interpreting scores, harmonic analyses, and spectrograms.
- Clear technical writing; able to articulate reasoning step-by-step in written form.
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
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