Music Educator

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: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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