Audio Engineering Expert (SME)

We are seeking a highly experienced Audio professional consultant to serve as a consultant on AI training data projects for leading AI model builders and enterprises. Your focus will be to define success criteria, review outputs, and provide targeted guidance to improve quality and speed — directly contributing to the successful delivery of domain-specific annotated datasets that meet the highest technical standards. Your responsibilities include defining quality success metrics, developing SOPs and QA rubrics, and reviewing project outputs against technical standards. You'll also provide advisory input on recording pipelines and curate example libraries of “gold standard” clips. You will participate in talent vetting, provide actionable feedback to improve outputs, and create targeted training resources. Additionally, you'll advise on technical scoping, provide expert guidance for edge cases, and contribute to post-project reviews to improve future standards, identify client model observations, build trackers, and conduct post-mortems to improve project outcomes. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and 3+ years of professional experience in audio engineering, with mastery of digital audio standards and proven ability to maintain high technical standards. Strong communication skills and experience producing technical documentation are essential. The ability to work within fixed timelines and strong attention to detail are also required.