Full-Time
Software Engineer
Growth
Suno
201-500 employees
Text-to-song AI music generation platform
Compensation Overview
$160k - $250k/yr
Cambridge, MA, USA + 1 more
More locations: New York, NY, USA
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- 5+ years of experience or equivalent software engineering expertise
- Deep experience with full-stack development
- An ability to translate data into insights and actionable strategies
- A bias toward shipping fast without sacrificing quality of code or user experience
- Experience applying AI tools to new workflows and use cases beyond writing code
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States
- Location is onsite in New York City or Cambridge office
- Own projects end-to-end, from identifying opportunities through shipping and measuring results
- Build and iterate across the full stack - frontend, backend, and data
- Design and run A/B experiments, working closely with data science to interpret results
- Create scalable and performant systems that support growth campaigns and initiatives
- A love for music is a huge plus
Suno creates AI-generated music from text prompts. It lets users describe a mood, genre, or idea and automatically produces fully produced songs with vocals, instrumentation, and arrangements, without requiring any musical training. The product works by turning user prompts into complete songs using generative AI models, offering a library of styles from pop and rock to ambient and cinematic. What sets Suno apart is its combination of engineering and songwriting culture, a fast-growing platform that supports many musical styles and a broad global user base, and its emphasis on making music creation accessible to non-musicians while delivering a complete song output rather than isolated elements. The company aims to reshape how songs are conceived, produced, and shared and to help more people create music by lowering technical barriers and enabling rapid, iterative experimentation.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$775M
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- Interactive albums and fan-completion features open new artist revenue streams.
- Paid plans support commercial use, attracting creators and professional producers.
- Social sharing and collaboration can deepen retention beyond prompt-to-song novelty.
What critics are saying
- Copyright litigation from Universal, Sony, Koda, and GEMA remains unresolved.
- A court-ordered retraining mandate would weaken model quality and delay releases.
- Spotify's native AI features can erode Suno's discovery and sharing advantage.
What makes Suno unique
- Suno turns text prompts into finished songs, not just music tools.
- Its web-based Studio combines DAW controls with AI song generation.
- Warner Music Group partnership gives Suno a licensed-model advantage.
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↑ 12%Investing in Suno: betting on the creator in everyone. Kirsten Green Founder, Managing Partner There is a moment that happens around the tenth song. You have been playing with Suno, typing prompts, hearing what comes back, sharing one or two with friends, and somewhere around the tenth creation, something shifts. You stop thinking of yourself as someone who prompted a machine and start thinking of yourself as someone who made something. You build a playlist. You come back to listen. You put your own song on during your commute and feel something that is hard to name but unmistakable: pride, maybe, or ownership. Authorship. That moment is why Forerunner is investing in Suno. Not a better tool; A new behavior that turns listeners into creators. We see Suno not just as a music tool. It is a new form of entertainment - creative entertainment - that sits closer to cooking or journaling than it does to GarageBand or Spotify. The distinction matters. Tools improve existing workflows. New behaviors create new ones. When Suno works, it is not making music production faster. It is enrolling people who never thought of themselves as music-makers into the act of making music. That is a population orders of magnitude larger than the market for any professional or prosumer music software that has ever existed. The behavioral evidence is already accumulating. The fastest-growing segment of Suno's user base reaches beyond the professional or the bedroom producer. It is the person who made a silly song for their kid's birthday and then couldn't stop. It is the teenager turning a text thread into a track and posting it before the conversation ends. It is the parent and child co-creating something in the kitchen on a Sunday that they will listen to together for years. These are ordinary people who have crossed the threshold from consumer to creator, and once you cross it, you do not go back. Three conditions converged: technology, culture, and an industry finally ready. We have been watching the cultural conditions for this company for a long time. The first condition is technical. The quality of AI-generated music crossed a meaningful threshold in the last 18 months. It is the difference between a demo that impresses and a song that moves. Suno's model is now producing music that non-musicians want to listen back to, which is the only threshold that matters for the consumer behavior we are describing. The second condition is cultural. We are living through a time when automation is making effort cheap, and people are increasingly paying a premium for things that feel genuinely theirs. This dynamic is showing up across every category we watch: in food (cooking at home surged not because takeout got worse but because making something yourself became culturally meaningful again), in craft (the resurgence of knitting, ceramics, sourdough, all of it), in fitness (people choosing to run harder courses, not just track their steps). Creative entertainment is the next category to feel this pull. Suno is building the default infrastructure for it. The third condition is structural. The music industry's relationship with fan participation is finally evolving from liability to opportunity. Labels that spent a decade litigating fan creativity are now calling participatory media their next growth vector. Suno is positioned not as an adversary to that system but as its native platform, with the Warner partnership, the Songkick acquisition, and an emerging artist revenue-share architecture already in place. The scaffolding for a genuinely new music economy is being built, and Suno is building it. A team who sees music as a human experience to transform, not a market to capture. We invest in people who see a category clearly before anyone else does and then build with the discipline to actually get there. Mikey Shulman and the Suno team see music the way the best founders we have backed see their categories: not as a market to capture, but as a human experience to transform. Mikey's framing that Suno is creative entertainment, that the goal is to give everyone the experience of having made something, is not a pitch. It is an organizing principle that shapes every product decision, every partnership, every hire. We have seen what that kind of founder clarity produces at scale, and we trust it here. The depth of the team, in AI research, in product, in the music industry relationships that matter, is what allows Suno to operate at the frontier of model capability while staying grounded in what ordinary users actually feel and do. That combination is rare, and when building for the consumer it is an essential superpower. The enduring AI companies will automate the task without automating the purpose. The enduring AI companies will be the ones that automate the task without automating the purpose. Suno has that emotion. That tenth-song feeling of authorship, the behavior of coming back to listen to what you made, is showing every leading indicator that we have learned to trust across fourteen years of consumer investing. We believe Suno is building a new leisure category. We believe creative entertainment will be one of the defining consumer behaviors of the next decade. We believe the team to build it is the one already doing it. And we believe the person who made their tenth song and felt something - who is, increasingly, everyone - is only at the beginning of understanding what this product will become for them. We are proud to be part of that.
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Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs | TechCrunch. Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0. The top model can generate professional-grade music of more than six minutes long, the company claimed. The company is releasing four new models under the Stable Audio 3.0 name: small SFX (459M parameters), small (459M parameters), medium (1.4B parameters), and large (2.7B parameters). The duo of small models is suitable for on-device sound and music generation of up to two minutes. Both medium and large models can create full compositions of 6 minutes, 20 seconds long that can maintain musical structure and melodic tone. This is more than double the length of what Stable Audio 2.0, released in 2024, was capable of generating. Stability AI is making small SFX, small, and medium models available with open weights for anyone to use and modify. In 2024, the company released Stable Audio Openwhich allowed for music generation of up to 47 seconds. The new family of models is a big step up from the previous open versions. The large model is available only through the API and self-hosting paid services. Plus, companies with more than $1 million in revenue would need to get an enterprise license. Many companies, including Google and ElevenLabsare releasing models and tooling around music generation. However, as Suno's and Udio's ongoing court battles have proved, licensing of data and partnerships with music labels could become a key part of the long-term survival of these services. Last year, Stability AI inked deals with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group to develop models and music-creation tools. The company said that its latest set of audio models is built on fully licensed data. The AI startup is developing a new suite of products for professional musicians but didn't give more details on its features. Ethan Kaplan, former chief digital officer at Universal Audio and Fender, is joining the company to lead Stability's professional music offering. A number of AI companies are trying to bolster their credentials by hiring music execs. Earlier this year, Suno hired former Merlin CEO Jeremy Orphan as chief commercial officer. ElevenLabs has also hired Derek Cournoyer from indie music publisher Kobalt as a strategy lead for its music business. When you purchase through links in its articles, V3 Media may earn a small commission. This doesn't affect its editorial independence.
AI song factory Suno sneaks into soma as San Francisco tech beat kicks back in. Published on April 03, 2026 Soma just got a new soundtrack. Suno, the AI startup that turns short text prompts into full songs, quietly opened an office in downtown San Francisco last week, planting its flag in the South of Market neighborhood as it ramps up hiring and expands its machine learning work. New soma hub and what Suno says. According to Axios, the new office, which opened last week, sits near Mission and 2nd streets. Co-founder and CTO Georg Kucsko told Axios that opening doors in San Francisco will be critical as we continue to scale. Axios also reported that Suno, which launched in 2023 and is headquartered in Cambridge, plans to grow headcount by about 70% and expects to double its workforce this year. Hiring push in soma. Local job listings point to an active recruitment drive for engineers, product designers and machine learning researchers based in San Francisco. Roles posted on Built In San Francisco and listings on Indeed list San Francisco as the required location and note that some positions will be on site while the precise office address is finalized. How the music Industry has reacted. Suno's expansion comes as the company continues to navigate major disputes over how AI models are trained and used. The Recording Industry Association of America sued Suno in 2024, and Warner Music Group reached a settlement with the startup in November 2025, according to TechCrunch, in a deal that included plans to develop licensed models with the label. Why San Francisco matters. San Francisco's office market has shown renewed leasing momentum, and AI firms are among the tenants driving demand. Reporting from The Real Deal documents a pickup in leasing and absorption that makes opening a local hub more attractive for startups hunting talent and studio space. Company stance and product guardrails. Suno frames its tools as a way to help people make new music and has rolled out features intended to give creators control, including voice verification and custom models. The company outlines those capabilities and asks users to report suspected copyright issues on its own pages; Suno also says it will not fulfill prompts that request non-AI recordings or the exact likeness of specific artists, per Suno and the Suno Help Center. For San Francisco, Suno's arrival is described as another sign that AI startups are once again opening physical hubs to hire specialized talent and build product teams in person. Axios' reporting suggests more local hires are likely as the company scales its machine learning groups in the months ahead.
Exclusive: AI music generator Suno opens SF office. An AI startup that lets users make music from prompts has opened an office in downtown San Francisco, Axios has learned. The big picture: Suno's expansion is another sign of the AI boom fueling downtown's comeback, and brings to the city a company at the center of recent fights over using copyrighted music to train AI models. Driving the news: Suno's new office, opened last week, is located in the South of Market, near Mission and 2nd. * Opening doors in San Francisco "will be critical as we continue to scale," co-founder and CTO Georg Kucsko told Axios via email. * The Cambridge-headquartered company launched in 2023 and is "investing especially heavily in our machine learning team to develop our frontier music model," according to Kucsko. * The startup is planning to grow headcount by 70% across engineering, product design, data science and machine learning teams, and expects to double its workforce this year. Between the lines: The company has been embroiled in legal challenges over its product. * The Recording Industry Association of America sued Suno in 2024 on behalf of three major record labels, including Warner Music Group (WMG). The lawsuit accused Suno of "wholesale theft" by allegedly using copyrighted recordings to train its model without permission. * Suno maintains that its platform is focused on creating new music and constitutes "fair use" under U.S. copyright law. * WMG settled with Suno in November. The deal includes requiring Suno to create new models trained on licensed content and allowing WMG artists to opt in or out of the program. Suno says it's meant to help users make new music and denies requests that reference specific artists or non-AI-generated music. * Users are encouraged to report copyright infringement if they come across a song that belongs to another artist or incorporates elements of someone else's music. What's next: Suno plans to launch the models developed with WMG and other industry partners this year. * More than two-thirds of its team members are musicians, and they regularly host writing camps with producers and artists, per a Suno spokesperson.