Music Data Specialist

Job Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish as a Music Data Specialist.

Role Overview

The Music Creation Apps team seeks a specialist to blend deep musical expertise with machine learning. Your role involves evaluating music datasets through a musicological lens, ensuring data quality, and validating musical accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate music datasets for quality and genre diversity.
• Use Python and libraries like librosa for music analysis.
• Create and curate datasets via recording sessions and synthetic data.
• Develop data curation strategies with engineering teams.
• Design evaluation frameworks and assess model outputs musically.
• Document musical metadata and quality standards.
• Communicate musical requirements to ML researchers and engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Audio Production, Musicology, or related field.
• Proficiency in Python and data analysis libraries such as pandas.
• Understanding of machine learning and audio signal processing fundamentals.
• Advanced music theory knowledge applicable to diverse genres.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with music analysis libraries like librosa or music21.
• Familiarity with large-scale music datasets and music information retrieval.
• Expertise in music creation tools such as Logic Pro.
• Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Key skills/competency

Music Theory, Python, Data Analysis, Librosa, ML Evaluation, Dataset Curation, Musicology, Audio Processing, Data Visualization, Quality Assurance