Music and Sound Designer (Remote | $70–$120/hr) — Austin, TX

Music Producer & Audio Specialist

Position: Music Producer & Audio Specialist

Type: Full-Time, W-2 Employment

Compensation: $70–$120 per hour

Location: Remote (United States)

Time Commitment: 40 hours per week, weekdays

About the Opportunity

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.

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide research teams in identifying knowledge gaps and improving AI model performance in commercial music production and audio post-production.

• Design challenging, real-world music and audio production tasks, including scoring to picture, multi-stem arrangements, voice-over cleanup, sound design, and advertising mixes.

• Produce rights-cleared reference deliverables in editable digital audio workstation (DAW) session formats.

• Evaluate AI-generated music, voice-over, sound design, and audio mixes for professional quality and technical accuracy.

• Provide clear, structured written feedback on musical structure, synchronization with picture, dialogue intelligibility, mix balance, and loudness compliance.

• Develop guidelines, evaluation rubrics, and quality-control checks for music and audio deliverables.

• Assess technical requirements such as broadcast loudness standards, synchronization, and audio delivery specifications.

• Collaborate with other subject-matter experts to maintain consistency, accuracy, and quality across AI training and evaluation data.

• Apply professional judgment to distinguish high-quality audio outputs from results that may appear convincing but contain technical or creative shortcomings.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

• Professional experience at a music production house, audio post-production studio, production music library, broadcast network, or in-house brand audio team.

• Demonstrated composer and producer credits on broadcast or digital advertising spots.

• Experience creating multi-stem arrangements, alternative mixes, and cutdowns for different advertising durations, including :60, :30, :15, and :06 formats.

• Professional mixing and mastering experience for broadcast loudness specifications, including:

• Ability to explain and apply relevant broadcast loudness standards.

• Professional proficiency in Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Reaper.

• 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.

• 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.

• Hands-on experience with sound design, Foley, and voice-over sessions, including voice-over ducking and dialogue intelligibility in short-form advertising.

• Working familiarity with generative audio tools such as Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs, and Adobe Enhance Speech.

• Ability to generate comparison samples using generative audio tools and evaluate their creative and technical quality.

• A public portfolio or professional reel demonstrating completed commercial work, with the ability to discuss and explain individual projects.

• Availability to commit reliably to at least 40 hours per week during weekdays.

• Strong written communication skills and the ability to clearly explain creative and technical decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering Dolby Atmos or 5.1 surround-sound projects.

• Advanced expertise in commercial music composition, multi-stem production, sound design, and broadcast audio workflows.

• Experience developing audio quality standards, evaluation guidelines, or structured review processes.

• Familiarity with emerging generative audio technologies and their practical applications in professional production environments.

• Experience collaborating with research teams, technical specialists, or AI evaluation professionals.

Compensation & Engagement

• Compensation: $70–$120 per hour

• Engagement Type: Full-time, W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC

• Work Arrangement: Remote (United States)

• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week