Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer

Posted 13 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
228K-363K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Internet of Things
The Role
Build and operate backend systems for Suno’s multi-step AI music agent. Design evaluation datasets, graders, regression sets, release gates, and data pipelines for nondeterministic systems. Create internal tools for reviewing model output, support production launches and on-call operations, and collaborate with ML engineers, product managers, and partner teams. The role also involves mentoring engineers and shipping high-traffic creative music features.
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About Suno

We're building the world's first creative entertainment platform, where the entire world can feel the joy and fulfillment of making music. Music is for everyone: Our users include everyone from grandmothers creating songs for their loved ones, to Grammy winners using Suno Studio, our power tool, to make the most popular hits in the world.

Building the future of entertainment requires ambition. The pace is fast, the problems are hard, and the work demands ownership and intensity. For the right people, it’s incredibly rewarding: a chance to shape a new medium, work with a small team that cares deeply about quality, make music, drink too much coffee, and build something that millions of people use to express themselves in ways that were never before possible.

Suno is the fastest growing consumer entertainment company and the leader in AI music. We are backed by leading investors including Bond Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon, Quiet, Matrix Partners, Schroders Capital and, NVentures (venture arm of NVIDIA).

About the Role

Suno's song creation agent takes a plain-language request, plans the steps, and calls our music models and audio tools to make the song. We're hiring Senior / Staff Full-Stack / AI Engineers to build the backend, data and evals behind it, working alongside ML engineers, PMs and the product teams who build on top of it. Most of the work is making a nondeterministic system behave, and proving that it does before anything ships. You'll join a small team and own your part of the agent, with a real say in how the rest of it is built.
Listen to the song we made about it: https://suno.com/s/YIofhzxQWKjXfwPS

What You'll Do
  • Build and run the backend for an AI agent that plans multi-step requests and calls music models and audio tools.

  • Design the evals, datasets and release gates that decide whether a change to the agent ships, and make the call when the results are noisy.

  • Develop the data pipelines that feed the agent and its evals, working alongside ML engineers.

  • Create internal tools for running and reviewing evals.

  • Share on-call and launch support for a high-traffic production system, and help the team ramp new engineers as it grows.

  • Help make creative fulfillment a daily reality for everyone by shipping the features people use to turn an idea into music.

What You'll Need
Must-Haves
  • 4–6 years building and scaling general backend systems in production, in any language: services at scale, observability and on-call ownership.

  • Experience shipping and operating an LLM-powered agent or feature in production, for external or internal users, with multi-step tool calling.

  • Experience building evals for nondeterministic systems, such as regression sets, graders or LLM judges, and using the results to decide what ships.

  • Comfort on a small team that runs production: handling ambiguity, unblocking yourself, and working with ML engineers, PMs and partner teams.

Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience with Python backends.

  • Experience building internal tools or dashboards, in TypeScript and React, for reviewing model output.

  • Experience with audio, music or other media generation systems.

  • Experience with LLM tracing and observability tools.

Work Location Policy

This role is expected to work from the designated Suno SF office 5 days a week, per Suno's company policy. Full-time employees will receive competitive equity packages, and comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered may vary depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Additional Notes

Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees
  • Company Equity Package

  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)

  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)

  • 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time

  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

  • Creative Education Stipend

  • Generous Commuter Allowance

  • In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)

Compensation
  • $228K- $363K

Suno is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the Massachusetts Fair Chance in Employment Act, NYC Fair Chance Act, LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Skills Required

  • 4–6 years building and scaling general backend systems in production, including services at scale, observability, and on-call ownership
  • Experience shipping and operating an LLM-powered agent or feature in production with multi-step tool calling
  • Experience building evaluations for nondeterministic systems, such as regression sets, graders, or LLM judges, and using results to determine releases
  • Ability to work effectively on a small production team, handle ambiguity, self-unblock, and collaborate with ML engineers, PMs, and partner teams
  • Eligible to work in the United States
  • Experience with Python backends
  • Experience building internal tools or dashboards with TypeScript and React for reviewing model output
  • Experience with audio, music, or other media generation systems
  • Experience with LLM tracing and observability tools

Suno (suno.com) Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Suno (suno.com) and has not been reviewed or approved by Suno (suno.com).

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as highly flexible, with unlimited PTO and unlimited sick days alongside a set of company holidays. This structure can materially improve perceived total rewards for employees who can comfortably take time away.
  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as notably strong, offering 16 weeks fully paid for both birthing and non-birthing parents. This level of paid leave can meaningfully reduce financial and career disruption for new parents.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with a stated 3% safe-harbor company match. This provides a clear employer contribution that strengthens long-term compensation beyond cash pay.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
144 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Suno is building a future where anyone can make music. Whether you're a shower singer or a charting artist, we break barriers between you and the song you dream of making. No instrument needed, just imagination. From your mind to music

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