Musicologist - Technical Task Specialist

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)

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