AI Data Annotation Specialist (Music & Sound Effects) - Malay

TELUS Digital; Surabaya ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ; On-site; IDR 66,960,000 - 100,440,000; Part time

Job summary

TELUS Digital in Surabaya, Indonesia, seeks a music data labeling specialist to annotate music and sound effects for language-region customization. You will identify genres, instruments, rhythm patterns, and emotional content to ensure precise tagging and cultural relevance.

Responsibilities include self-checks, quality reviews, and revising rejected cases with attention to guidelines. Strong listening, discrimination skills, and awareness of regional expressions are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Education, internship, or work experience in music production, composition, arrangement, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Perform fine-grained labeling on data such as music and sound effects, including instrument identification, genre, rhythm pattern, emotion, and music structure.
• Identify music genres, traditional instruments, and culture-specific sounds and use natural expressions that conform to target language conventions.
• Complete self-checks and quality checks according to guidelines; analyze rejected cases and revise them.

Skills

Music listening

Music discrimination

Audio- perception

Language assessment

Cultural context

Education

Music production background

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Perform fine-grained labeling on data such as music and sound effects, including but not limited to instrument identification, music genre, rhythm pattern, emotion, and music structure.
• Identify music genres, traditional instruments, and culture-specific sounds unique to the target language region, and use natural expressions that conform to the conventions of the target language.
• Complete self-checks and quality checks according to the guidelines. Analyze the causes of rejected bad cases, revise them, and review similar issues across completed work.
• If there are L2 sites that are under the L4 authentication process can also be involved in trial first, and official work will be conducted once and only when the authentication is done.

PROFILE:

1. Music (Priority)

Professional background:

Education, internship, or work experience in music production, composition, arrangement, mixing, or related fields; solid foundation in music theory and familiarity with music creation and production.

Core skills:

• Strong music listening and discrimination skills.
• Able to distinguish musical characteristics across instrumentation, rhythm, tonality, form, emotion, and style.
• Able to identify popular music, film/TV scores, traditional music, and representative instruments from the target cultural region.
• Able to identify common instruments, performance techniques, ensemble configurations, and section changes, and judge the entry, change, and stop points of background music.
• Experience in musicology, composition, arrangement, recording arts, mixing, instrumental performance, music production, music information retrieval, or music-content annotation is preferred.

2. Sound Effects

Professional Background:

Have relevant education, internship or work experience in sound effect production, audio editing, sound design, film and television sound, etc. and familiar with various types of sound materials.

Core skills:

• Professional audio discrimination skills.
• Able to identify realistic sound effects, non-realistic special effects, off-screen sound, and obvious vocal post-processing effects in mixed audio tracks.
• Able to accurately identify audio issues such as noise, distortion, hum / background noise, and abnormal reverberation.
• Experience in sound design, recording arts, film/TV sound, audio post- production, game audio, Foley production, sound-library classification, or audio quality inspection is preferred.

Language proficiency:

• Native speaker of the target language, or native-level proficiency in listening,
• speaking, reading, and writing.
• Able to judge common regional accents, colloquial expressions, and cultural context
• Able to use English as the working communication language.