Music Audio Expert - French

$17–54/hr

rate as listed

Workload: 10+ hrs/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Creative

Evaluate AI-generated music and lyrics in French, scoring head-to-head samples on musicality, prompt adherence, vocal quality, and mix. Part-time remote work of 10+ hours per week for up to six months, with observed pay between $30 and $60.48/hr.

What the work involves

You'll listen to pairs or batches of AI-generated music samples and decide which is better — and, more importantly, articulate why in language an engineering team can act on. That means separating a weak arrangement from a weak mix, noticing when a vocal model produces a phonetically wrong French vowel or misplaces a syllable against the beat, and flagging when generated lyrics are grammatical but idiomatically dead. Alongside comparative scoring, you'll annotate tracks against a structured taxonomy: genre and sub-genre, song structure, instrumentation, vocal timbre and technique, and production characteristics. Some tasks involve rating the quality of training data rather than model output.

The French component is not incidental. The lab needs raters who can hear whether a generated vocal sounds like a French speaker singing French, catch prosody errors that an English-first listener would miss, and judge whether lyrics land in the register the prompt asked for — chanson, rap, variété, or something else. Task instructions and rubrics arrive in English, so you need to work comfortably in both.

What the platform screens for

Mercor runs a roughly 25-minute AI-led conversational interview after resume upload. Expect it to probe your production or engineering credits with follow-ups — which rooms, which DAWs, which credits are verifiable, what your actual role was on a given release. Vague claims tend to collapse under a second question. The screen also tests whether you can describe audio problems in precise terms (masking, sibilance, pumping, phase issues) rather than adjectives, and whether you can hold a consistent standard across many samples instead of drifting toward personal taste.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous; you set your own hours within task deadlines
10+ hours per week, part-time, up to a six-month engagement
Immediate start; onboarding details typically follow within a few days of the interview
Observed pay band is $30–60.48/hr — placement within it reflects credentials and project tier, and is not guaranteed
You'll want decent monitoring: reliable headphones or monitors, and a quiet listening environment

What they look for

Native or near-native French with strong working English
3+ years as a music producer, audio engineer, or mixer
Experience writing lyrics or songs in French
Working knowledge of music theory, arrangement, and song structure
Fluency in audio-engineering vocabulary for describing mix and vocal quality
Degree in music (performance, theory, or composition) preferred

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

Drawn from what this listing actually requires. Answered in your browser — nothing is sent to us, and we do not store your answers.

Are you a native or near-native speaker of both French and English, able to understand detailed technical instructions in English and evaluate music and lyrics in French?
Bilingual proficiency in French and English · required
Have you written lyrics, produced, or professionally evaluated music in French?
Music creation or evaluation experience in French · required
Do you have at least 3 years of professional or project-based experience as a music producer, audio engineer, sound mixer, or in an equivalent role involving hands-on music creation or evaluation?
3+ years music production, audio engineering, or mixing experience · preferred
Have you completed formal training (college degree, conservatory program, accredited course sequence, or equivalent mentored learning) in music theory, performance, and/or composition?
Music theory, performance, or composition training · preferred
Are you available to commit 10 or more hours per week to this project for up to 6 months, starting immediately?
Availability: 10+ hours per week · required

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Interview prep — 11 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether the candidate has actual hands-on experience making judgment calls about music quality using precise language, not just passive listening or one-off opinions.
A strong answer: The answer should name concrete technical dimensions (mix balance, vocal tone, harmonic choices, rhythmic clarity, lyrical coherence) and show how they explained trade-offs—e.g., 'the vocal was warm but buried, the drums locked well but the bass freq clashed.' It should reflect calibrated taste, not absolutes.
Where people lose it: Candidates often describe only their own creative preferences ('I liked the vibe') or use vague descriptors ('it sounded good') instead of demonstrating the analytical vocabulary and reasoning process needed to score AI outputs consistently and justify scores to colleagues.

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