Music Professional

Pay: Up to $100/hour

Overview

Handshake is looking for experienced music professionals and academics to support AI research through flexible, hourly contract work. This is not a traditional job. You’ll draw on your hands-on expertise in instrumental performance, composition, or music production to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI better understand music across styles, traditions, and cultures.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside anything else you have going on.

Details

• This project involves using your professional experience and hands-on knowledge of the tools you use in your daily work to create expert-level training data and evaluate AI-generated responses for accuracy and relevance. No prior AI experience required.

• Fully remote with a flexible, asynchronous schedule and no minimum hour requirement; most contributors work approximately 5–20 hours per week when participating in an active project.

• Placement depends on current project needs, with opportunities to be considered for future projects as they become available.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above required; DMA strongly preferred

• Background in composition, jazz performance, guitar performance, commercial music, or instrumental performance (e.g., saxophone, trumpet)

• Strong instrumental performance background; performance-focused degrees preferred over musicology or ethnomusicology

• Experience with Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Ableton is a plus but not required

• Strong written communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment