Music AI Researcher/Engineer
About the role
Songscription is a music learning AI lab dedicated to enabling anyone to play any song they can imagine. Our flagship product, Songscription, is the AI-powered "Shazam for sheet music," allowing users to upload audio and receive sheet music, MIDI, tabs, or piano roll within minutes. Our second product, Anything Piano, is an app that helps users learn songs through an interactive piano roll with real-time feedback. We have received funding from Reach Capital and have been featured in TechCrunch, Billboard, and MusicRadar. With a small yet dynamic team, we are poised to make significant strides in the music industry.
Key Responsibilities
Research, design, and implement machine learning models for audio and symbolic music understanding and information retrieval.
Collaborate with design and engineering teams to integrate models into user-facing products.
Work with the data team to curate, preprocess, and augment large-scale music datasets.
Conduct model evaluation, ablation studies, and optimization for real-world latency and reliability.
Translate recent research advances into applied systems that directly impact creators and learners.
Play a key role in shaping the direction of our AI roadmap, from early research to large-scale deployment.
About You
A strong background in machine learning or signal processing, with demonstrated research experience (publications, open-source projects, or significant independent work).
Experience building and training large-scale models (audio, sequence, or generative domains preferred).
Strong coding and experimentation skills with a practical mindset.
Comfortable collaborating across disciplines, from engineers to designers and musicians.
Excited about the intersection of AI and music; performance or composition experience is a plus.
Benefits
Medical, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
PTO
Team events
$175K–$225K + Equity
How to Apply
If you're interested, please email your LinkedIn and resume to jobs@songscription.ai. Note for applicants: Be sure to mention pirates or something pirate-related in your email when you apply. We love candidates who read thoroughly!