Data Captioning Specialist for Sound and Music (Korean Language)

TELUS Digital; Surabaya ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ; On-site; IDR 44,640,000 - 89,280,000; Full time

Job summary

TELUS Digital in Surabaya seeks a data labeling specialist to perform fine-grained labeling on music and audio data, including instrument IDs, genres, rhythm patterns, emotions, and music structure; you will tailor expressions to the target language region and culture.

You should have Korean language proficiency, English working ability, and a background in music production or sound design; strong listening, discrimination, and attention to detail are essential for accurate labeling and quality

Qualifications

• Korean native or near-native proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
• Ability to judge regional accents, colloquial expressions, and cultural context.
• Able to use English as working language.
• Professional background in music production, composition, mixing, or sound design.
• Strong listening skills to distinguish instruments, rhythm, mood, and style.
• Identify traditional and popular music with representative instruments from target culture.
• Knowledge of common instruments, performance techniques, and orchestration changes.
• Able to recognize audio issues such as noise, distortion, or reverberation.

Responsibilities

• Label music data with instrument IDs, genres, rhythm patterns, emotions, and structure.
• Identify culture-specific sounds and regionally unique instruments.
• Perform self-checks and quality control per guidelines.
• Analyze rejected cases and review similar issues across work.

Skills

Korean language proficiency

English working proficiency

Music listening and discrimination

Music production / sound design

Cultural context understanding

Attention to detail in audio labeling

Job description

About the role

Perform fine-grained labeling on data such as music and sound effects, including 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.

Key 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

About you

• Korean 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
• Professional background in music production, composition, arrangement, mixing, or related fields; or sound effect production, audio editing, sound design, film and television sound
• 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
• 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