Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer
Suno is hiring a Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $228k-$363k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Suno.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this AI engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Pay on this posting starts 25% higher than the typical AI engineer posting on Level.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions AI agents among its tools and skills.
- Suno has 68 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
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 RoleSuno'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
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.
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.
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.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
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)
$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.
How we rate this
Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer at Suno rates 71 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $228k
- Typical AI engineer job
- $183k
This posting starts 25% above the typical AI engineer job. See AI engineer jobs
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- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
- If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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