Music Producer - Malayalam Specialist

Mercor; Singapore; On-site; SGD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring experienced musicians to evaluate generative musical AI models in partnership with a leading AI lab. You will assess model outputs across different music categories in your bilingual language.

Responsibilities include evaluating lyrics, voice generation, and ranking samples by musicality, creativity, prompt adherence, vocal quality, and production/mix quality. Ideal candidates have 3+ years as a music producer or audio engineer, proof of musical theory and lyric understanding, a

Qualifications

• Experience as music producer or audio engineer for at least 3+ years.
• Demonstrated understanding of musical performance, theory, and lyric writing.
• Degree in music covering performance, theory, and lyrics.
• Past work writing lyrics in Malayalam and English.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI model outputs across lyrics, voice generation, and other music standards.
• Score quality of musical training data used for models.
• Write or review music in the domain language listed in the title.
• Able to understand directions in English.
• Rate samples using terminology for musicality, creativity, prompts, vocal quality, and mix.
• Annotate songs with genre, structure, and vocal/instrumental traits via a taxonomy.

Skills

Music production

Audio engineering

Lyrics writing

Malayalam fluency

English fluency

Education

College degree in music

Job description

Mercor is hiring experienced Musicians to evaluate generative musical AI models in partnership with a leading AI lab.

You will assess model outputs across in different categories of music in your bilingual language.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI model output lyrics, voice generation, and other standards
• Score quality of musical training data
• Experience writing music in the domain language listed in the title
• Able to understand directions in English language
• Rate AI-generated music samples head-to-head on musicality, creativity, prompt adherence, vocal quality, and production/mix quality, using audio-engineering terminology
• Annotate songs in detail: genre/sub-genre classification, song structure, vocal/instrumental characteristics via a structured taxonomy

Ideal Qualifications

• Experience working as a music producer, audio engineer, and/or sound mixer for at least 3+ years
• Evidence of understanding musical performance, theory, and lyrics
• College degree in music, involving both performance, theory, and lyrics
• Past experience writing lyrical music in the domain language listed in the title
• Native or near-native proficiency in both Malayalam and English

Project Timeline

• Start Date: Immediate
• Duration: Up to 6 months
• Commitment: Part-time, 10+ hours per week

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.