Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Leverage
Suno is hiring a Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Leverage in Boston, United States. It pays $229k-$364k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- Pay on this posting starts 36% higher than the typical software engineer posting on Level.
- The posting mentions LangGraph, Mcp and full stack among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Suno has 68 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Design and build AI-powered internal systems and agentic infrastructure to help teams across Suno scale.
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).
Listen to the Suno version of this role! https://suno.com/s/375QSVXzMkUOAvwN
About the Role
AI is changing how software gets built and how companies run and we intend to be at the front of it. We're hiring a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to build the systems that let every team at Suno move fast and scale with our rapid growth. This is greenfield work with real ownership, and you'll help shape how Suno adopts AI. We're hiring for our AI Leverage team, which empowers engineers and other teams across Suno to move faster at scale with agentic tools.
What You'll Do
Design and build AI-powered internal systems that let everyone at Suno, from engineers to recruiters, do more with AI
Own the underlying infrastructure that keeps our AI tooling running in production: reliable, observable, cost-effective, and flexible
Partner with cross-functional teams to understand their workflows, surface the right problems to solve, and prioritize what gets built next
Champion best practices for agentic coding and operations, and help teams adopt them across the company
What You'll Need
Must-Haves
You bring 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience
You’ve designed, built, and shipped AI-based tools that go well beyond using a coding assistant, and you’re fluent in concepts like MCP, gateways, and evaluations
You’re eager to learn and share agentic coding best practices and tools
You have a track record of shipping tooling or systems that support engineering or internal teams
You thrive in an early-stage, 0→1 environment where the problem space is still being defined
Nice-to-Haves
You’ve worked with agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph) and eval or observability tooling (e.g. LangSmith, Braintrust)
You’ve stood up operational practices for internal systems from scratch
Not sure you meet every point above? Please apply anyway. If you're excited about this work and think you could make an impact here, we'd love to hear from you. The best candidates rarely check every box.
Work Location Policy
This role is expected to work from the designated Suno 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)
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 Software Engineer, AI Leverage at Suno rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● 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. Open the description and count.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Pay
- This job starts at
- $229k
- Typical software engineer job
- $168k
This posting starts 36% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where full stack was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai tooling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where agentic coding was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used LangGraph in your day-to-day work.
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Full Stack, AI Tooling, Infrastructure, Agentic Coding, and LangGraph. 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.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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