<p><strong>Music Producer & Audio Specialist</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Position: Music Producer & Audio Specialist </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Type: Full-Time, W-2 Employment</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Compensation: $70–$120 per hour</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Location: Remote (United States)</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Time Commitment: 40 hours per week, weekdays</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></p><p>We are seeking an experienced Music Producer and Audio Post Specialist with a strong background in commercial composition, mixing, and mastering for broadcast and digital advertising. In this role, you will collaborate with a leading AI research team to help advance next-generation generative AI systems. You will apply your professional expertise in music production and audio post-production to design realistic creative tasks, evaluate AI-generated audio, and establish quality standards for music, sound design, and mixing.</p><p>This is an opportunity to bring real-world commercial audio production judgment into AI development. Candidates should have substantial professional experience delivering music and audio post-production projects for agencies, brands, broadcasters, or production companies.</p><p>The position is a W-2 employment opportunity with Cincinnatus LLC, which serves as the employer of record. Selected professionals may be placed within a leading AI lab's extended workforce.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Guide research teams in identifying knowledge gaps and improving AI model performance in commercial music production and audio post-production.</li><li>Design challenging, real-world music and audio production tasks, including scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangements, voice-over cleanup, sound design, and advertising mixes.</li><li>Produce rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable digital audio workstation (DAW) session formats.</li><li>Evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, sound design, and audio mixes for professional quality and technical accuracy.</li><li>Provide clear, structured written feedback on musical structure, synchronization with picture, dialogue intelligibility, mix balance, and loudness compliance.</li><li>Develop guidelines, evaluation rubrics, and quality-control checks for music and audio deliverables.</li><li>Assess technical requirements such as broadcast loudness standards, synchronization, and audio delivery specifications.</li><li>Collaborate with other subject-matter experts to maintain consistency, accuracy, and quality across AI training and evaluation data.</li><li>Apply professional judgment to distinguish high-quality audio outputs from results that may appear convincing but contain technical or creative shortcomings.</li></ul><p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li>At least 5 years of professional experience delivering commercial music composition, production, mixing, or audio post-production work for agencies, brands, broadcasters, or production companies.</li><li>Professional experience at a music production house, audio post-production studio, production music library, broadcast network, or in-house brand audio team.</li><li>Demonstrated composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital advertising spots.</li><li>Experience creating multi-stem arrangements, alternative mixes, and cutdowns for different advertising durations, including :60, :30, :15, and :06 formats.</li><li>Professional mixing and mastering experience for broadcast loudness specifications, including:</li><li>Ability to explain and apply relevant broadcast loudness standards.</li><li>Professional proficiency in Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Reaper.</li><li>Experience using iZotope RX for voice-over and dialogue cleanup, along with professional loudness measurement tools such as iZotope Insight, Nugen VisLM, or Waves WLM.</li><li>Familiarity with editable source files and professional delivery requirements, including DAW sessions, DME and instrument stems, cue sheets, ISRC information, metadata, synchronization licensing terms, and music library delivery requirements.</li><li>Hands-on experience with sound design, Foley, and voice-over sessions, including voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form advertising.</li><li>Working familiarity with generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs, and Adobe Enhance Speech.</li><li>Ability to generate comparison samples using generative audio tools and evaluate their creative and technical quality.</li><li>A public portfolio or professional reel demonstrating completed commercial work, with the ability to discuss and explain individual projects.</li><li>Availability to commit reliably to at least 40 hours per week during weekdays.</li><li>Strong written communication skills and the ability to clearly explain creative and technical decisions.</li></ul><p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li>Experience delivering Dolby Atmos or 5.1 surround-sound projects.</li><li>Advanced expertise in commercial music composition, multi-stem production, sound design, and broadcast audio workflows.</li><li>Experience developing audio quality standards, evaluation guidelines, or structured review processes.</li><li>Familiarity with emerging generative audio technologies and their practical applications in professional production environments.</li><li>Experience collaborating with research teams, technical specialists, or AI evaluation professionals.</li></ul><p><strong>Compensation & Engagement</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Compensation:</strong> $70–$120 per hour</li><li><strong>Engagement Type:</strong> Full-time, W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC</li><li><strong>Work Arrangement:</strong> Remote (United States)</li><li><strong>Time Commitment:</strong> 40 hours per week</li></ul>