Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant

About the Role
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science is looking to recruit a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant in AI for Music. The Centre for Digital Music has a new Innovate UK grant, collaborating with a pro-audio company. The post-holder will work on audio signal processing for loop/sample detection in recorded masters, instrument identification in masters and lyrics transcription.

About You
Applicants require a Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science/Electronic Engineering (or equivalent). Applicants at the PDRA level must have a PhD in Computer Science or related field. Candidates must have substantial knowledge in Deep/Machine Learning, Audio and/or Music Signal Processing and familiarity with several of: source separation, instrument identification, music structure decomposition, sample detection, audio fingerprinting, singing voice detection and transcription.

About the School of EECS

Our researchers work with the arts and sciences collaborating with psychologists, biologists, musicians and actors, mathematicians, medical researchers, dentists and lawyers. As a multidisciplinary School, we are well known for our pioneering research and pride ourselves on our world-class projects. We are equal first in the UK for the impact of our Computer Science research, and second in the country for our Electronic Engineering research output (REF 2021).

About Queen Mary
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence and we embrace diversity of thought in everything we do. We believe that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full-time/part-time (35/17.5 hours per week), fixed-term appointment starting as soon as possible, until 31 March 2025. The starting salary will be Grade 4-5, in the range of £36,572 - £37,182 for a RA per annum pro-rata and £40,223 - £44,722 per annum pro rata for a PDRA per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We have policies to support our staff throughout their careers, including arrangements for those who wish to work flexibly or on a job share basis, and we provide support for those returning from long-term absence. We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic groups and from women in all stages of life, including pregnancy and maternity leave, these groups are underrepresented at this level at Queen Mary.

Candidates are kindly requested to upload documents totalling no more than 10 pages; certificates, references and research papers should not be provided at this stage.