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AI Vocal Stem Separation Quality Enhancer

Audrey Fischer

Full-time · Job · London

About the role

Vocal stem separation — isolating the vocal track from a mixed music recording — is a foundational capability for remix production, karaoke generation, music licensing verification, and vocal isolation for hearing accessibility. The state of the art has improved dramatically over the past five years. What hasn't improved proportionally is the quality of artifacts that remain after separation: the bleed of instrument frequencies into the vocal stem, the timbral coloration the separation model introduces, and the handling of reverb and room sound that was mixed into the original before separation. We build AI music production tools for 180 studios and independent producers. Our current vocal separation pipeline uses an off-the-shelf open-source model. The gap is post-processing quality enhancement: taking the raw separation output and improving it through artifact removal, bleed reduction, and timbral restoration that makes the isolated vocal stem production-ready without manual touch-up from a mix engineer. You'll build the vocal stem quality enhancement pipeline: training artifact reduction models on paired degraded-clean vocal datasets, implementing frequency-domain bleed suppression, and building the perceptual quality evaluation that correlates model output scores with mix engineer quality ratings.

Responsibilities

  • Train artifact reduction models on paired degraded vocal stems and clean reference recordings
  • Implement frequency-domain bleed suppression removing residual instrument frequencies from isolated vocal stems
  • Build timbral restoration models reducing the coloration that stem separation models introduce
  • Develop reverb tail handling that preserves natural vocal space while removing instrument reverb contamination
  • Create perceptual quality evaluation correlating automated scores with mix engineer quality assessments
  • Build enhancement pipeline integrating with existing separation workflow as a post-processing stage

Requirements

  • 3+ years in audio ML or signal processing with music source separation, audio enhancement, or speech processing experience
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills with spectrogram-based audio model development
  • Understanding of music mixing, frequency masking, and perceptual audio quality dimensions
  • Experience training models on paired audio datasets with perceptual quality objectives
  • Familiarity with mix engineering workflows and vocal production standards

Benefits

  • Fully remote across UK/EU time zones
  • 28 days PTO plus bank holidays
  • Private health insurance
  • £2,500 annual learning budget
  • Equity participation

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