Music Expert (Music Teacher / Musician)

The work

You will support AI training by analyzing short field recordings and musical clips. The work combines music theory, careful listening, structured annotation, and review of AI-generated descriptions.

You will use quality headphones in a quiet workspace to examine recordings that are usually 30 to 90 seconds long. You will also take part in onboarding, calibration, and project sync activities to keep your work consistent.

• Identify instruments, musical key, tempo, and background sounds such as traffic, applause, and sirens.
• Add precise timestamps, structured notes, and observations about what is happening in each recording.
• Compare recordings of the same song from different locations and note musical or contextual changes.
• Rate AI-generated descriptions of musical clips and give concise, evidence-based feedback.
• Keep annotation quality consistent across repetitive, detail-focused tasks.

What it pays and takes

This is a part-time contractor role for music teachers, musicians, producers, session players, and other audio professionals. Prior AI training experience is not required.

• Pay: $20 to $45 per hour.
• Time: 20+ hours per week.
• Language: Professional fluency in English, written and spoken.
• Experience: At least three years of hands-on music or audio experience.
• Listening skills: Identify instruments and events in complex recordings, and determine musical key and tempo within a few BPM using relative pitch and reference tools when needed.
• Equipment: Quality headphones, a quiet workspace, and stable internet access.
• Helpful background: Conservatory training, a music theory or instrumental performance degree, audio annotation, music transcription, or sound analysis experience.
• Location: Open to candidates in Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes and finish on the hiring platform. The next step is a short AI interview (technical roles include a coding challenge). Passing it is how you qualify for paid tasks, so take it soon after you are invited.

The hiring platform's application for this job asks for your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 6 screening questions.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind many artificial intelligence systems. People label examples, review model outputs, and provide feedback so AI can better understand audio, language, images, and other information.

Music and audio professionals are valuable in this work because they can make precise judgments about sound that general reviewers may miss.