The Sound of AI Job Post for Stealth Gen AI Music Startup (Senior)

Job Title

Founding Senior AI Music Engineer

Title is provisional and may be changed based on the candidate's experience (e.g., VP of Engineering, Principal Engineer, or even Co-Founder & Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer).

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Company

A well-funded and promising Harvard & Stanford co-founding team is currently building the first-ever generative AI frontline music label, from the ground up. Whereas most other generative AI music platforms are effectively ChatGPT for music, significantly constraining the creative contributions of their users, while training LLMs without any regard for copyright, this startup is doing things differently. As musicians themselves, the co-founding team is prioritizing empowering their users to truly drive the creative process targeting premium and human-first music, while building in a copyright-safe way, and ultimately monetizing by way of subscriptions as well as royalty participation. In the long-term, the team aims to build a vertically integrated platform - a best-in-class Gen AI product suite, distribution, analytics, and beyond - to support musicians from inspiration through monetization. Angels and advisors include the Head of Gen AI & LLMs at Spotify, as well as the Head of Music Consulting at McKinsey & Co., among others.

Location

Remote. Preferably (but not necessarily) in the US.

Responsibilities

The Co-Founders are looking for a Senior AI Music Engineer to join their Gen AI music startup. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • ML architecture(s) and infrastructure
  • Building, scaling and optimizing AI music models and backend cloud-based services
  • Individual contribution to all relevant codebases
  • Management and growth of the AI/ML team

Additionally, the role offers exciting exposure to all things related to building a business, such as corporate strategy, fundraising, hiring, etc.

The role would either be included in or report directly to the Co-Founders & C-Suite of the startup.

Experience

  • 5 to 15+ years of experience, with a demonstrated focus on both music and Generative AI
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Knowledge of:
    • Deep learning (transformers, variational auto-encoders, CNNs)
    • Traditional ML
    • Generative music
    • Audio digital signal processing
    • MIR
    • Music theory
  • Familiarity with DL and ML libraries such as Tensorflow / Keras, PyTorch, scikit-learn
  • Familiarity with MLOps is a plus
  • Knowledge of the current generative music literature (e.g., MusicLM, MusicGen) is a plus
  • Having published AI music papers is a plus
  • Having built AI music systems from concept to deployment is a huge plus
  • Proven management / leadership experience is preferable

Contract

Employee contract. Full-time. Permanent.

Compensation

$150-200K, and equity TBD - both commensurate with experience.

How to Apply

Please send an email to Valerio Velardo at valerio@thesoundofai.com, with the following information:

  • CV
  • Cover letter
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • Job title you’re applying for (junior or senior?)
  • Current location
  • Indicate if you are willing to relocate to the US if hired

Valerio will get back to you soon. If you're selected, you'll be invited to an interview with Valerio. Only emails that have all the requested information will be answered.