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Music Producer & Audio Post Specialist (AI Evaluation)

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced generative AI models. 1. Overview Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from…

Field
Voice & audio
Where
United States
Commitment
full time
Hours
up to 40/week
Openings
20
Employment
W-2 employee of Cincinnatus LLC, per the listing
Posted
5 days ago

How this pay compares

The title points to rating and reviewing ai output: judging a model's answers or code against guidelines, such as which of two is better or whether one is correct and safe. What each kind of AI training work pays

At $95/hr (the midpoint of $70 to $120), this role pays more than 88% of the 286 open voice & audio roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $30.

Among platforms with 10 or more priced voice & audio roles, Mercor has the highest median ($50/hr across 26 roles) and Alignerr the lowest ($24/hr across 132).

Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one 5 days ago.

Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.

What you would earn at this rate

Per week, before tax

$3,800

Per month, if the work is steady

$16,467

Tax
The listing describes a W-2 employee role, so the employer withholds US tax from each paycheck.

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The full listing

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Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced generative AI models.

1. Overview

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking a talented Music Producer and Audio Post Specialist, a commercial composer and mixer, with deep, hands-on experience scoring, mixing and mastering spots for broadcast and digital, to bring real music and audio post judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data. This is a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.

2. Key Responsibilities

  • Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in commercial music production and audio post-production.
  • Design challenging, real-world music and audio tasks, such as scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangement, voice-over cleanup, sound design and mixing for ads, and produce rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable session formats.
  • Evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, sound design and mixes and give clear, written feedback, catching problems with structure, sync to picture, intelligibility, mix balance and loudness.
  • Develop guidelines, rubrics and quality checks for music and audio, including technical loudness and sync checks.
  • Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

3. Core Qualifications

  • 5+ years of shipped commercial music or audio post work for agencies, brands, broadcasters or production companies, at a music house, audio post studio, production music library, network or in-house brand audio team. Crowd rating, data labeling and student work do not count.
  • Composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital spots, with multi-stem arrangement, alt mixes and cutdowns (:60, :30, :15, :06) delivered to picture.
  • Mix and master credits on spots delivered to broadcast loudness specs such as ATSC A/85 (-24 LKFS, -2 dBTP) and EBU R128 (-23 LUFS, -1 dBTP), with the ability to explain the specs from memory.
  • Professional fluency in Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Reaper, plus iZotope RX for voice-over and dialogue cleanup and a loudness meter such as iZotope Insight, Nugen VisLM or Waves WLM. Dolby Atmos or 5.1 delivery is a plus.
  • Fluency with editable source files and deliverables: DAW sessions, DME and instrument stems, cue sheets, ISRC and metadata, sync licence terms and library delivery requirements.
  • Hands-on sound design, Foley and voice-over session experience, including bed and voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form ads.
  • Working familiarity with generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs and Adobe Enhance Speech, the ability to generate your own comparison samples, and the judgment to tell a strong result from a plausible-looking weak one.
  • A public portfolio or reel of shipped work; you will be asked to walk through it.
  • Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
  • Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain creative decisions clearly.

About Cincinnatus LLC:

Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.

From applying to your first payment on Mercor

  1. 1

    Apply to this listing

    Apply on Mercor with your resume.

  2. 2

    AI interview

    Take Mercor's recorded AI interview, about 20 minutes. A completed interview carries over to other listings that use the same one.

  3. 3

    Work

    Hourly work is counted in weeks that run Saturday to Friday.

  4. 4

    First payment

    Mercor pays each Wednesday around noon Pacific through Stripe (or Wise). Stripe holds a first payout for 7 days, and standard transfers take up to 5 business days to reach your bank.

Sources: Mercor talent docs: AI interview, Mercor talent docs: payments

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Pay history

Mercor has listed this role at $70-120/hr since Nov 6, 2026 with no change.

Across Mercor's voice & audio roles, the median listed pay was $50/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (26 roles) and is $50/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (26 roles).

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